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VertinMon
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I'm sure everyone will join me in wishing you get an 'A' for your effort/paper.
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alfacolin
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Since you do not find my posts worthwhile, I'm sure everyone will join me in wishing you refrain from responding to them anymore.
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VIAGRA-VIAGRA
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0Kelvin
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Do you know anything about the origin of
I don't know if Mondrian used such a term, but it has been used by artists to describe the space around an object for my whole life. It gets a little awkward, though, when one needs to distinguish between two types of negative space (positive and neutral), as I have had to do here.
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mysticwizard
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What a man has to do.. but I agree with you about this cubist tension in this painting. The lower vertical lines in the latticework create an impresson of a physical ground under the three. These darker areas under the tree with some light reflection work different from the other dark/light (positive and neutral negative space) areas in the upper part of the background.
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manchop
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The lower vertical lines in the latticework create
I notice this now that you have pointed it out.
I had thought that Mondrian established a sort of floor by elongated horizontal lines a little above these darker patches.
I do not get a sense Mondrian really cared about establishing a realistic 3-d space.
I don't quite see the function of the darker patches, unless they are meant to suggest shadow.
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Ducati999
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It is strange this painting and quite difficult to get a grasp of. Some shadows are 'cubist' and others are 'landscape', I believe. Then he used/changed the forms of the tree, too. Mondrian may have given some account of what he was doing in these years. He's moving out of 3D, but I don't know how far away he is at the time.
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0Kelvin
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Then
You can see the evolution of Mondrian's approach on the second URL in the first post of this thread. In 1908 he did 'Red Tree.' In 1911, he did 'Horizontal Tree.' Then in 1912, he painted 'Apple Trees,' which is not really trees but one tree. I think he was doing versions of the same tree in all three paintings and getting more abstract with each one. The first one, 'Red Tree,' is the most realistic. It looks strongly influenced by Van Gogh.
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