Summative Assessment 1 VisConLang Visual Essay Amanda Malan

Summa&ve Coursework Assessment 1:
Visual Essay
Fine Art : Visions Contexts Languages
Student - Amanda Malan - Semester 1

Piet Mondrian!
1872-1944!
!
Painter & contributor!
to
De stijl modernist
movement

Early life & Painting
Born into Ar)s)c Strict Protestant
family at Amersfoort Netherlands
in poor circumstances 1872
1892 -1900
Early paintings already resemble the
Post-Impressionist style & palettes of
Vincent van Gogh & Paul Cezanne
capturing mood and emotions as was the
philosophical thinking of the time
‘Landscape with Ditch’ 1895-
watercolour
‘Self Portrait’ 1900
Oil on Canvass
‘Girl Writing’
1892-95 black
chalk on paper
‘View of Winterswijk 1898-99
watercolour

‘Chrysanthemum’ 1908
Fleeing to the countryside
during unrest ,painting
these flowers helped
sustain him financially as
paintings were more
‘acceptable’ to public
1904-1910
Netherlands
Mondrian kept
experimenting with more
simplistic, abstract
styles of painting using
mostly primary colors
‘Amaryllis’
1910

1911 Paris
Greatly inspired by an exhibition of Cubist Georges Braque
Apple Tree in Flower 1912, Mondrian
Contrary to
Braque’s
paintings –
Mondrian
painted nonfigurative
and
simplistic
Composition nr 10 Pier & Ocean 1915
Mondrian
Black grid foundation
now prominent in
paintings translating
Cubist influence
Tableau III 1912, Mondrian
Trees in Blossom 1912, Mondrian

Netherlands and De Stijl
Composi)on
1916, Mondrian
1914-1919
Mee&ng fellow Ar&st Theo van Doesburg
De Stijl Movement was born
Lozenge with grey lines
1918, Mondrian
Inspired by stained glass
van Doesburg made
Composi)on light
colour planes
with Grey
1919,Mondrian
Light colour planes
with grey lines,
1919, Mondrian
Composi)on
Chequerboard
Dark Colours
1919,Mondrian
Composi)on with
colour planes
1917, Mondrian

Paris 1920
Tableau I
1921,
Mondrian
Mondrian’s Colour Studio Illustra)on
The Ar'st re-invented himself
Simplis'cally, Geometrically
and Abstract using primary
colour- crea'ng order out of
Theosophical dis-order in his
mind. He termed the style
Neo-Plas'cism
Composi/on with Red Yellow Blue & Black
1921 ,Mondrian
Mondrian was
dismayed over
the
‘representa&onal’
themes of Braque
and Picasso’s
work
‘The Sideboard ‘
Georges Braque 1920
Composi)on1,
Mondrian
‘ The Bathers ‘
Pablo Picasso 1918

New extremes in
Minimalis&c
Approach followed
1938 Leaving
Paris & war
for New York
Composi)on II with black lines,1931
Composi)on with red and blue,1936
Fascinated
with the idea
of the ‘line’
Mondrian
argued that
‘It had always
been at the heart
of the painting,
yet no one
thought to
challenge that’
Mondrian
felt liberated
and black
lines from
pain&ngs
disappeared
Mondrian’s
last
unfinished
pain&ng
‘Victory
Boogie-
Woogie’
1943-44
New York New York 1941-42
Transla&ng the street grid of
New York

Bibliobraphy
Foster.H, Krauss.R, Y.Bois, Buchloh.BHD, Joselit.D, 2010, Art since 1900, Thames & Hudson, New York
Blotkamp.C,2001,Mondrian the Art of Distruc)on,Reak&on Books Ltd. ,London
Milner.J,1995,Mondrian,Phaidon Press, London UK
Encyclopedia of Art History, 2016, [Online] Available at: hep://www.visual-arts-cork.com [Accessed 23
March 2016]
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Founda&on, 2016, [Online] Available at: hep://www.guggenheim.org
[Accessed 27 March 2016]