Piet Mondrian
Piet Mondrian
Gray Tree
The Gray Tree is an oil painting created by Piet Mondrian. This was painted in 1911 using a thick type of oil on canvas. This process would of taken weeks or months due to its thick layers of paint, even though this was a long process, the motions of the brush strokes look very quick and vivid. This painting can be found at Gemeente museum in Den Haag.
Analysis
This contemporary painting by Piet Mondrian is almost eerie looking, somewhat releasing a ghostly essence. This painting makes me feel somewhat scared, but also intrigued, like there is a story behind this, or like someone or something is going to come out from behind the tree. However this painting also reminds me of (excuse my nerdy reference here) the whomping willow from Harry Potter, the whomping willow is said to be alive, so whoever approaches it, its branches will reach out and attack whoever it is.
This also was one of the famous series of paintings including trees by Mondrian. Mondrian's tree paintings included a lot of red & grey and they quite different to his other best-known works of art like, "Broadway Boogie Woogie", and "Red, Yellow and Blue".
Mondrian's tree series really worked with the colours, hence the names "Red Tree", "Blue Tree" and "Grey Tree” and these were all painted in an abstract and unique matter. It is also rumoured that Mondrian somehow mimicked style of Van Gogh in his trees series, and this was quite frowned upon in the art world. I also think that the trees were a new way and style that Mondrian found to express his art and from then on became much more abstract, influencing this onto a lot of paintings done later on in Mondrian’s life. This painting was a large part of Mondrian’s artistic growth, so we wouldn’t not of seen much of the great works of Mondrian if it wasn’t for this experimenting.
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Synopsis
Piet Mondrian is recognized as the purest and most
Gray Tree
The Gray Tree is an oil painting created by Piet Mondrian. This was painted in 1911 using a thick type of oil on canvas. This process would of taken weeks or months due to its thick layers of paint, even though this was a long process, the motions of the brush strokes look very quick and vivid. This painting can be found at Gemeente museum in Den Haag.
Analysis
This contemporary painting by Piet Mondrian is almost eerie looking, somewhat releasing a ghostly essence. This painting makes me feel somewhat scared, but also intrigued, like there is a story behind this, or like someone or something is going to come out from behind the tree. However this painting also reminds me of (excuse my nerdy reference here) the whomping willow from Harry Potter, the whomping willow is said to be alive, so whoever approaches it, its branches will reach out and attack whoever it is.
This also was one of the famous series of paintings including trees by Mondrian. Mondrian's tree paintings included a lot of red & grey and they quite different to his other best-known works of art like, "Broadway Boogie Woogie", and "Red, Yellow and Blue".
Mondrian's tree series really worked with the colours, hence the names "Red Tree", "Blue Tree" and "Grey Tree” and these were all painted in an abstract and unique matter. It is also rumoured that Mondrian somehow mimicked style of Van Gogh in his trees series, and this was quite frowned upon in the art world. I also think that the trees were a new way and style that Mondrian found to express his art and from then on became much more abstract, influencing this onto a lot of paintings done later on in Mondrian’s life. This painting was a large part of Mondrian’s artistic growth, so we wouldn’t not of seen much of the great works of Mondrian if it wasn’t for this experimenting.
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QUICK VIEW:
Synopsis
Piet Mondrian is recognized as the purest and most