January 2022 / Art History: On Display

AP Art History: Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow-- #136

Sunday, January 23, 2022

Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow

Bio of the work:

Title: Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow

Date: 1929

Medium: Oil on canvas

Museum: The Kunsthaus Zürich

Analysis:

Mondrian was an abstract painter and claimed to be what is called a Neo-Plastist. Being inspired by the cubist reduction of forms to their simplest, Mondrian experimented with blocks of color during the 1920s and 30s. Instead of using fluid forms like his contemporaries, Mondrian composed his paintings of structured, but expressive forms. His style quickly diverged into "De Stijl" or "the style" which was adopted by the Bauhaus in Germany. Mondrian tries to express an impression and a feeling through his structured compositions.

Sources:

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/later-europe-and-americas/modernity-ap/a/mondrian-composition

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Sunday, January 9, 2022

Meet Italian Baroque trailblazer and master, Caravaggio

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Sunday, January 2, 2022

As shown above, the facades of Greek classical monuments have many elements! These are certainly not all of the elements, but many of these are commonly used in art history classes and discussions.

Cornice: includes pediment and surrounding decorations; the true triangle shape of the facade
Pediment: usually relief decorated triangle shape on the inside of the cornice
Frieze: strip of alternating relief stone on all sides of monument; made up of metopes and triglyphs
Metope: small relief squares within the frieze
Triglyph: three small, vertical grooves between metopes in the frieze
Architrave: thin strip of stone below the frieze
Doric Columns: the most simple of the Greek columns- no base and a small round top
Stylobate: large set of steps, forming the foundation of the temple

Art History: On Display