Fine arts: May 2012

Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Piet Mondrian's abstraction and his trees

Piet Mondrian's pure abstraction

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Piet Mondrian is recognized as the purest and most methodical of the early abstractionists. He radically simplified the elements of his artwork in an effort to reflect what he believed to be the order underlying the visible world. In his ground breaking paintings of the 1920s, Mondrian strictly limited his color palette to black, white, and the three primary colors: red, yellow, and blue.

Mondrian's use of asymmetrical balance and a simplified pictorial vocabulary were crucial in the development of modern art. His iconic abstract works remain influential in design and familiar in popular culture.

A theorist and writer, Mondrian equated art with the spiritual. He simplified his work, searching to reveal the essence of the spiritual energy in the balance of forces that governs nature and the universe.
Mondrian attempted to represent the world through vertical and horizontal lines which to him represented the two opposing forces: the positive and the negative, the dynamic and the static, the masculine and the feminine.
Mondrian's singular vision is clearly demonstrated in the methodical progression of his artwork from traditional representation to complete abstraction. The paintings evolve logically and illustrate clear periods of influence art movements such as Luminism, Impressionism, and especially Cubism.
Mondrian was a founding member of De Stijl, an influential Dutch art movement that advocated pure abstraction to express a utopian ideal of universal harmony.

Mondrian's trees paintings

Quotes

"The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture."

"Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture."

"To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual."

"I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects."

"I don't want pictures, I want to find things out."

Monday, 28 May 2012

Mark Rothko art paintings quotes

Mark Rothko art paintings quotes

Mark Rothko moved through many artistic styles until reaching his signature 1950s motif of soft, rectangular forms floating on a stained field of color. Heavily influenced by mythology and philosophy, he was insistent that his art was filled with content, and brimming with ideas. A fierce champion of social revolutionary thought, and the right to self-expression, Rothko also expounded his views in numerous essays and critical reviews.

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Highly informed by Nietzsche, Greek mythology, and his Russian-Jewish heritage, Rothko's art was profoundly imbued with emotional content that he articulated through a range of styles that evolved from figurative to abstract.
Rothko's early figurative work - including landscapes, still lifes, figure studies, and portraits - demonstrated an ability to blend Expressionism and Surrealism. His search for new forms of expression led to his color field paintings, which employed shimmering color to convey a sense of spirituality.
Rothko maintained the social revolutionary ideas of his youth throughout his life. In particular he supported artist's total freedom of expression, which he felt was compromised by the market. This belief often put him at odds with the art world establishment, leading him to publicly respond to critics, and occasionally refuse commissions, sales and exhibitions.
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MARK ROTHKO QUOTES

If you are only moved by color relationships [in my paintings], you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.

Since my pictures are large, colorful, and unframed, and since museum walls are usually immense and formidable, there is the danger that the pictures relate themselves as decorative areas to the walls.

We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth.

The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.

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Great contemporary surreal art works and painting collection

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Laurie Lipton

Many of the surrealist artists that get attention are male artists. This was true back in the first era of surrealist art and it remains true today. However there are a lot of female surrealist artists from both then and now. One of the hottest contemporary women in the world of surrealism today is Laurie Lipton.

Marco Escobedo

I have to confess that the idea for this hub came from a recent Weburbanist article on the artist Marco Escobedo. This was an artist that I hadn't been aware of in spite of the fact that I am a huge fan of surrealist art. When I saw the link to the article on him in my Google Reader, I knew I had to follow it. I was happily rewarded with an exploration of the terrific work of this one amazing artist that I didn't already know. He is a digital artist who takes the tools provided by PhotoShop and turns up the volume to make surrealistic photos that are stunning to behold.

Kris Kuski

This artist is a multi-media artist who creates really cool three-dimensional products such as artistic toys for kids. Kris Kuksi actually recycles old toys and puts them together to create these new toys that are fantastical, magical, frightening and fun. He also does drawings, paintings and various sculptures.

George Grie

He does digital art in both 2D and 3D formats. Photo-realism is another term frequently associated with this artist. I tend to find a lot of his work to be a bit on the darker side although I wouldn't say that it's truly macabre.

Carrie Ann Baade
The conversation about modern female surrealist artists always mentions Laurie Lipton and often also always mentions Carrie Ann Baade. She is a professor of painting at Florida State University and a painter herself.

Frank Picini

If the kind of surrealist art that you like verges on the dark and pensive then you'll probably take a liking to modern surrealist artist Frank Picini. The subtitle of his website is "the darkness craves a mind" which tells you what some of the work is all about. He uses a variety of different tech tools to create modern art that gives you a glimpse into the interesting world inside of his mind.