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

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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