{"id":1004,"date":"2012-02-09T21:28:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T21:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2012-02-09T21:28:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T21:28:59","slug":"mondrian-integration-and-rhythmic-shape-motifs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=1004","title":{"rendered":"Mondrian – (Integration and Rhythmic Shape Motifs)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Piet Mondrian - Farm at Duivendrcht - 1907 - 87 x 109 cm - oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

This beautifully rendered painting by Mondrian is a superb example of sophisticated\u00a0 integration.\u00a0 We see this in how he poetically harmonized the trees with the house.\u00a0 Let’s begin with the tree at the left and the subtle parallel of the lower branch with the roof line.\u00a0 The relationship provided is a form of integration and can also be considered harmony and structure as well.\u00a0 Now to the next tree and how it blends with the roof line.\u00a0 The third tree from the left also parallels the roof line, then connects to the chimney.\u00a0 The fourth tree follows the roof at the right and then continues up to form a triangle shape with the large tree leaning in from the right. This triangle form echoes the triangle shapes of the house, providing a beautiful rhythm, or triangle motif. We then continue with the rhytms of the earlier trees with the large branch going to the right in this large tree.\u00a0 The group of trees at the right form a large shape which provides a counter movement paralleling the right sides of the triangle shapes in the house.\u00a0 There are more waiting to be discovered.<\/p>\n

I would like to mention the birds, which Mondrian used as a refinement to the composition.\u00a0 Note how they extend, or integrate with<\/em>, the large shape of the trees, guiding you down to the left tree.\u00a0 And how two of the birds integrate with the large branch of the large tree at the right, and how that little bird at the right of the trees connects to the tree below.\u00a0 If the bird was further from the trees\u00a0 the connection would dissipate.\u00a0 The location of the bird would also integrate work elsewhere, the key is the distance between the chosen branch and the bird.<\/p>\n

A master painter is very aware of the importance of every mark and how it relates to the composition.<\/p>\n

I would like to take you to the water at the bottom right of the painting and why he choose not to show the reflection of the sky.\u00a0 The reason being it would compete with the focus of the painting by drawing us down to the bottom.\u00a0 This is an excellent example of composition before information!<\/p>\n

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Another note:<\/p>\n

It’s good to be aware that the movement towards abstraction came through figurative painters, as we see in Picasso, Matisse, Mondrian, Nicholson and many others in this period of great change in painting.<\/p>\n

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