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| Photo-Manipulations: April 2023 |
“De Stijl sought to establish a new unity in all the arts. They were all to work together to shape the modern world, and were indeed already doing so. In accordance with Mondrian’s ideas, van Doesberg propounded the theory that henceforth in art ‘nature and intellect, or the feminine and masculine principle, the negative and the positive, the static and the dynamic, the horizontal and the vertical’ should be brought into equilibrium.” [1.]
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| All Original Images: Central Leicester, February 2023 |
“The search for meaning and form was now transferred in the imagination to society as a whole. The concept underlying Mondrian’s paintings – namely to appear as never completed works – was the same as that of the cathedral.” [2.]
"...Mondrian and van Doesberg both agreed that avant-garde painting had to be allied to an equally radical modern architecture. Clear colours in combination with simple white structural elements were to take the place of the sad and stuffy world of the 19th century, which they liked to refer to as 'brown'. Once this new architecture was established, all the problems of justifying avant-garde painting would be solved at a stroke. How would anyone be able to reproach them for painting pictures that no one could understand or need, when examples of the new architecture were springing up everywhere, proclaiming their ideas of colour." [3.]
"In a book completed in manuscript form in 1931 under the title of 'The New Art - The New Life' ('Le Nouvel Art - La Nouvelle Vie: La Culture De Rapports Purs'), Mondrian proclaimed the end of art was imminent. This end would include the end of the Old World, and thereafter the 'new life' and the dawning utopian era could profit from the energies formally used to produce works of art during the dark ages of the human race." [4.]
[1.] - [4.]: Susan Deicher, 'Mondrian 1872 - 1944: Structures in Space', Cologne, Midpoint/Taschen, 1994/2001
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