{"id":145325,"date":"2024-01-31T09:34:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T08:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/namaki.fr\/?p=145325"},"modified":"2024-07-24T11:35:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T09:35:30","slug":"artistic-exploration-mondrians-new-york-city-1942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/namaki.fr\/en\/exploration-artistique-new-york-city-1942-de-mondrian\/","title":{"rendered":"Artistic exploration: Mondrian's New York City, 1942"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An artistically vibrant city, New York was, for Mondrian, the symbol of the modern world and its renewal. The Centre Pompidou<\/a> and Namaki invite you to decipher the work New York City from Mondrian<\/a>. Are you ready to follow the lines of a world in three colors?<\/p>\n<\/div>

Mondrian, from still life to abstract painting<\/span><\/h2><\/div>
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From Europe to the New World<\/span><\/h3><\/div>
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Born in Holland on March 7, 1872, Piet Mondrian left at the age of twenty to study painting at the Amsterdam Academy of Fine Arts. He began by creating realistic landscapes. Before long, his tree trunks were transformed into simple vertical lines and the branches into horizontal lines. Interested in new artistic trends, including cubism, he moved to Paris in 1912, where he discovered C\u00e9zanne, Braque and Picasso. Later, as the Second World War approached, he moved to London, eventually settling in New York.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\ud83d\udca1 To discover Mondrian's inspirations, you can show your children a painting by C\u00e9zanne and another by Picasso. Ask them which one they prefer and why!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Follow the lines<\/span><\/h3><\/div>
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Mondrian painted abstract pictures and even went beyond the experience of abstraction, contenting himself with placing vertical and horizontal lines side by side without any reference to reality. Soon, colors were limited to the three fundamentals: red, yellow and blue. Shapes were limited to squares and rectangles. The artist uses strips of paper of varying widths, which he lays out on his canvas to visualize the tangle of lines.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\ud83d\udca1 Questions for your children<\/strong><\/em> What do these lines remind you of? If you focus on the yellow lines, what do you imagine? What do the big squares painted between the lines make you think of? And the small ones at the intersection of two lines?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

New York City, the canvas: three colors for one city<\/span><\/h2><\/div>
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An abstract representation of the modern city<\/span><\/h3><\/div>
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Unlike the Parisian streets and architecture Mondrian had known, New York was a new city with parallel and perpendicular streets, and slender, aligned buildings. He began to paint his surroundings and the city's hectic atmosphere in an abstract way.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Piet Mondrian<\/b> (1872-1944)
\nComposition in red, blue and white II<\/i><\/b><\/a>, 1937
\nOil on canvas, Huile sur toile, 75 x 60,5 cm<\/p>\n

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