How much area of canvas does a painter paint during his life
and how much color does he use
? ? ? ? ? ? ?
An interesting answer can be found in Mondrian, who dedicated almost 30 years of his artistic life to paintings funded on a double principle: the size of orthogonal geometric surfaces and the exclusive use of primary colors. Forty one of these kind of paintings, known as “Compositions” and realized between 1918 and 1943, have been here “de-composed” in order to quantify the area of canvas occupied by each color. These surfaces have been then summed for creating a new Composition, which summarize the well-known Mondrian’s art pieces.
This is not just a Mondrian remake.
This is an "info-painting" which sums up
almost 30 years of Mondrian's “non-representative”
paintings known as "Compositions".
The numbers and the color surfaces reported
represent the sum of the surface area for each color
of the 41 paintings analyzed and they have been
used for creating this final Composition.
Here below the study and the making of.
"The colored planes, as much by position and
dimension as by the greater value given to color,
plastically express only relationships and not forms"
_Piet Mondrian
