Avant Garde
Avant-Garde Prints: Piet Mondrian
The Avant-garde Movement is regarded as a revolutionary period in art and culture. It was characterized as a break from the norm, pushing the boundaries against the establishment in 17th century France. The term, avant-garde, is a term translated in English as advance guard or vanguard. The vanguard refers to a group of soldiers who were usually sent ahead of a larger troop in battle to scout for danger. Avant-garde artists aimed to tear down the status quo and challenged society to rise out of social conformity.<br>
Some of the most famous artists in history belonged to this movement. Museums and art shops continuosly reprint posters and postcards of their work to meet popular demands. Other more affordable and convenient options availed by consumers for such art prints include online printing of customized postcard designs. Customers can create a postcard by uploading a famous art print on a website.<br>
Prominent work that belonged to this popular period was identified with the work of Piet Mondrian. Mondrian began his career as a traditional Dutch landscape painter until until a visit to Paris in 1905. Here, he first saw the cubist works of Pablo Picasso and Paul Cezanne. The artist was profoundly influenced by such avant-garde artists that he was said to have moved to Paris in 1912. It was at this period where he,part of the Dutch Avant-garde Movement, called for change in traditional Dutch painting. This was the beginning of his characteristic style towards abstraction. He moved back to the Netherlands during the outbreak of World War I. There, a decisive influence toward his work was the philosopher M.H.J. Schoenmaekers. The philosopher’s theories on the symbolism of lines and universal mathematical composition finally led him, together with co-artists; Theo van Doesburg, Bart van der Leck, and Vilmos Huszato to form the modern abstract art movement of De stijl. This new movement rejected literal and pictorial translations of reality, believing that true representation was in the form of straight lines, geometry and primary colors. Mondrian’s style is best manifested in his works; Composition with Gray, Red, Yellow, and Black, 1920–2 and Diagonal Composition, 1921.
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