21/03/2011 Mondrian / De Stijl at Centre Pompidou
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We need courage and strength to weather this period of dissonance. It is becuase we are afraid of that dissonance and wanting to adapt to the past that we are not moving forward. The goal is not to adapt: It is to create.
The Centre Pompidou is hosting once again an unmissable exhibition about De Stijl, a magazine and art movement whose main names are Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944) and Theo van Doesburg (1883 - 1931).
Seul l'aspect pur des éléments, dans des proportions équilibrées, peut atténuer le tragique dans la vie et dans l'art.
This exhibition is following the evolution of De Stijl mainly through Piet Mondrian's work, showing from where the "new plastic" araised to its influence after Mondrian's time and focusing on the evolution of Mondrian's art inspired by nature. He started to purify it, study balance and proportions of lines and colors and finally introduced rhythm... Lines and squares only? Not at all but pure creation of fascination.
The Centre Pompidou has the great idea to sell a copy of "Réalité naturelle et réalité abstraite", the essay by Piet Mondrian published in De Stijl between 1919 and 1920 to explain the language of "new plastic". This book is written as a dialogue between a painting amator, a naturalist painter and an abstract realist painter and demonstrate the believe in a "new man" and a "new society" by Piet Mondrian. I absolute enjoy this book which made me understand the vision of Piet Mondrian for what he calls "general beauty".
I construct lines and colors combinations on a flat surface in order to express general beauty with the ulmost awareness.