Showing posts with label Piet Mondriaan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Piet Mondriaan. Show all posts

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Mondrianification of a second monument for Putin

ralf kwaaknijd, Mondrianification of a second monument for Putin, 2012
Mondrianification of a second monument for Putin
(own work, 400 x 400 x 1200 cm * acrylic, plastics and mixed media * 2012)

This work combines the Monument series with the Mondrianification series.

Politicians have too often produced anti-artistic megalithic monuments, starting already in Antiquity. Tottering dictatorships lead to ultra-ugly oversized edifices meant to convince the masses that all is well and the powers that be are just. (Monument series)

To see Him everywhere. Mondriaan's legacy is His lasting influence on our perception of primality, linear interaction and rectangularity. (Mondrianification series)

Again the monument is freely available for any country willing to build it. A close-up of the Red Russian Bear:
  ralf kwaaknijd, a second monument for Putin (detail), 2012
A second monument for Putin
(detail of own work, 400 x 400 x 1200 cm * acrylic, plastics and mixed media * 2012)

Saturday, January 3, 2009

The Mondrianification series

ralf kwaaknijd, mondrianification of train window, 2008

Mondrianification of Train Window (own work, 100 x 140 cm * mixed media * 2008)

ralf kwaaknijd, mondrianification of Tennis Timetable, 2008

Mondrianification of Tennis Timetable (Own work, 100 x 140 cm * mixed media * 2008)

Mondrianify your life. See Him everywhere. Such is the influence of a Great Artist on our times. Piet Mondriaan did not just paint bare stripes and rectangles in primary colours...no, He changed our concept and perception of rectangularity and balance, brought it on a Zen level. In honour of this great achievement, I have started the Mondrianification series.