Practical Analysis of Deconstructed Color Design - Case 3 (2)

Mondrian (1872-1944) is a representative of the style school. Mondrian has received formal training in the art school, but he did not take the traditional path of painting, but created his own style. Mondrian's works already possess the contrasting and harmonizing ideas contained in the contemporary color composition teaching. His works are characterized by simplicity and abstraction, and they have strong visual impact. Their abstraction has reached a situation where they can no longer be minimalistic ( The practice of students reconstructing their own works also proves this point). Mondrian was mainly influenced by the Cubist painters. He used color primary colors and straight lines as the most basic elements. The paintings were made using the most fashionable term "constitution" at the time. Applying the horizontal and vertical line structure arrangement on the composition, only a simple primary color flat coating is applied on the segmented block surface, which makes a person fully feel the beauty of the proportional color segmentation, so that the picture is unique and expressive.

Figure 8 is a reconstruction of Mondrian's famous Red Yellow Blue Composition. "Red, Yellow, and Blue" is a cross-distribution of vertical and horizontal black lines in the form of coordinates, in which red accounts for the largest proportion of about 2/3 of the entire map, and blue is in a weak position and red forms a horn angle, resulting in strong The visual conflict, and the yellow color located in the lower right corner of the picture, is a balancing act in the silent tone. Figure 8 uses the method of deconstruction to do "addition", anti-Mondrian's minimalism, reducing the contrast between the red block and the blue block, and adding a green small block in the lower left corner, forming a block with the main red Complementary conflicts. At the same time, two vertical and horizontal thick black lines were added, and the area ratio of the yellow block was appropriately enlarged, making it a “witness” of the complementary colors of red and blue and red and green. Mondrian prefers to use primary colors and geometric shapes in white in his composition series, while Figure 9 boldly adopts black as the background, changing the color relationship of the original image at the bottom of the picture, thus bringing about an "alternative" The color feel. This shows that deconstruction of color does not necessarily mean to do “subtraction”. For rich colors and complex bodies, methods of extraction or deconstruction can be used. For works of abstract composition like monasteries, “addition” can be used without changing the basic method of the original work ( If you use the original colors, straight lines and other elements to create a different idea, you may have unexpected novel effects.

Figure 8 Color composition I

Figure 9 Color Composition II

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