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| Broadway Boogie Woogie 1.27m x 1.27m Piet Mondrian |
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| Number 5 2.4m x 1.2m Me |
Broadway
Boogie Woogie is an art piece created by my close friend Piet Mondrian,
following the rules of De Stijl very closely. It consists of rectangles and
squares in the primary colors of yellow, red and blue arranged in an orderly
manner. The composition of the angular forms is controlled and appears to be
very carefully calculated and planned.
In my opinion,
the use of colors in our pieces are quite similar for this case. In my ‘Number
5’ I used the primary colors primarily. Red and blue in the background while
the yellow acted as highlights in the foreground. There isn’t really much of a
composition at first glance but I do have an image of how I wanted the painting
to turn out.
Although we
both used abstraction in our paintings, it is a really different form of
abstraction we both seek to express. While Piet took pride in the rigid,
composed arrangement of carefully painted right angles of his paintings, I took
pride in my seemingly barely controlled, wild look of my splattered paint.
To keep to the
stiff and unforgiving rules of De Stijl is just not my style, I cannot bare to
constrain myself to the straight lines evident extensively in Piet’s painting.
I want to break free and be as wild as the canvas allowed me too. To be as
orderly as Piet is just not in my nature.
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