Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Piet Mondrian Paintings And Francis Bacon Paintings

By Darren Hartley


The most recognized Piet Mondrian paintings are abstract paintings of colored squares, rectangles and thick black lines. Piet Mondrian was a famous abstract painter, born in the Netherlands in 1872. Piet did not start out painting squares and rectangles. He only started so during the tail end of the Impressionism movement.

A unique style, termed neo-plasticism by Piet himself was the design for dynamic Piet Mondrian paintings. This style was not based on outside artistic influences or typical techniques, rather, it is an interpretation of deeply felt philosophical beliefs of theosophy and anthroposophy. Theosophy is a religious mysticism which sought to help humanity achieve perfection. Anthroposophy, on the other hand, held the notion that the spiritual world was directly accessible through the development of the inner self.

Piet Mondrian paintings gradually began to simplify and abstract the colors and shapes of their subject matter, as Piet explored nature his own way. This process of simplification and reduction eventually became evident even in his paintings not related to nature in any way.

Francis Bacon paintings were known for their raw graphic style and distorted images of people. Francis Bacon, one of the most famous 20th century British painters, was described as that man who paints those dreadful paintings.

Francis Bacon paintings turned traditional paintings of people inside out, with grotesquely distorted faces and twisted body parts. Some of the most famous of these paintings were inspirations from the old master artworks, including Head VI, based on the Portrait of Pope Innocent X by the Spanish artist, Diego Velazquez.

Featured in many Francis Bacon paintings of the 1960s, such as Study for Head of George Dyer, was petty criminal George Dyer, with whom Francis fell in love with after he caught him breaking into his home. Triptych featured George as he was found slumped dead in a hotel bathroom.




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