Module 5 : Modern Art and Design
  Lecture 13 : Cubistic Sculpture, Piet Mondrian’s ‘Neo-plastic Art’, Minimalist Art in Industrial Design
 

Piet Mondrian: ‘Neo-plastic Art’

Mondrian’s
Pure Plastic Art (‘Neo-plastic Art’) philosophy played a very important role in Modern Art and Design relationship. Color did not have to represent and meaning or symbol. Color is as color only. Red and yellow represent the value of red or yellow. Along with the color the straight lines became significant in term of simplicity. Straight lines expressed a new form of aesthetics. Simplicity and minimal representation of form and shapes became the core of industrial products. A new essence of aesthetic beauty emerged that was not realized earlier. The Bauhaus became the source of such new philosophy.
(Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian ; December 28, 2012)

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Plate 10A Mondrian’s Tree 
10B Mondrian’s Gray Tree 
 10C Tree  
(Source: http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=Mondrian%27s%20paintings&um=1&ie=UTF8&tbm=
isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=girbUNLbPNGJrAfNpIDgCA&biw=1325&bih=549&sei=virbUPr3GJGG
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; December 26, 2012)

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Plates11A Blue Appl
Tree 
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11B Blue Apple Tree
 
11C Mondrian’s Tree
 
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11D Abstract Tree
 
(Source: http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=Mondrian+tree+abstraction&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw
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source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=LvTeUJurNcfPrQfft4GYAw
; December 28, 2012)