Piet Mondrian, Composition with Blue and White, 1936, oil on canvas, 121.3 x 59 cm, Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung NRW.
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Piet Monderian, Broadway Boogie-Woogie, 1942-43. Oil on canvas.
Mondrian arrived in New York in 1940, one of the many European artists who moved to the United States to escape World War II. He immediately fell in love with the city and with boogie-woogie music, to which he was introduced on his first evening in New York. Soon he began, as he said, to put a little boogie-woogie into his paintings.
Mondrian’s aesthetic doctrine of Neo-Plasticism restricted the painter to the most basic kinds of line—that is, to straight horizontals and verticals—and to a similarly limited color range, the primary triad of red, yellow, and blue plus white, black, and the grays in between. But Broadway Boogie Woogie omits black and breaks Mondrian’s once uniform bars of color into multicolored segments. Bouncing against each other, these tiny, blinking blocks of color create a vital and pulsing rhythm, an optical vibration that jumps from intersection to intersection like traffic on the streets of New York. At the same time, the picture is carefully calibrated, its colors interspersed with gray and white blocks.
Mondrian’s appreciation of boogie-woogie may have sprung partly from the fact that he saw its goals as analogous to his own: “destruction of melody which is the destruction of natural appearance; and construction through the continuous opposition of pure means—dynamic rhythm.”
—from MoMA Highlights: 375 Works from The Museum of Modern Art
Photo: Museum of Modern Art
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Consider Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie.
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Finally started listening to prison of plastic Neo Trio you will forever be famous
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Bisexual? I thought you were Taiga!
Give me memes to redraw >:)
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gorilla glue mounting putty opens up such a new era in gunpla posing
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Piet Mondrian, Tableau No. X, with Yellow, Black, Red, and Blue, 1925, oil on canvas, 49 x 42.5 cm, Krefeld, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum. Photo from December 2017.
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I don't remember if i ever post these outfits here, but i made them a while back and bringing them back now for spooky month
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A Vanilla Flavored, Cotton Ball 12-year-old: Phoenica Fleecity
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And so I have begun my journey in making all of the characters from Deltarune Chapters 1 & 2. I’m not making them in any particular order but I do have pictures of every sprite saved on my phone right now. I am sure this is going to take a lot of time to do since I am only making them in my free time. This is all done with yarn and plastic canvas in a form of cross stitching. It took me nearly 7 years to make all the characters from Undertale. Therefore, I have a feeling this might take me just as long. Heck, it might take longer since I do plan to also make all the characters from the future chapters 3-7 when they are released. As always, I must say thank you to @fwugradiation for his amazing games. Without him, none of this would be possible and I doubt I would ever have the determination to do something this big.
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