Rick Steves London 2017 by Steves Rick & Openshaw Gene

Author:Steves, Rick & Openshaw, Gene [Steves, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Avalon Travel
Published: 2016-10-24T16:00:00+00:00

1930s—DEPRESSION

As capitalism failed around the world, governments propped up their economies with vast building projects. The architecture style was modern, stripped-down (i.e., cheap), and functional. Propagandist campaigns championed noble workers in the heroic Social Realist style.

Piet Mondrian

Like blueprints for modernism, Mondrian’s T-square style boils painting down to its basic building blocks: a white canvas, black lines, and the three primary colors—red, yellow, and blue—arranged in orderly patterns. (When you come right down to it, that’s all painting ever has been. A schematic drawing of, say, the Mona Lisa shows that it’s less about a woman than about the triangles and rectangles she’s composed of.)

Mondrian (1872-1944) started out painting realistic landscapes of the orderly fields in his native homeland of Holland. Increasingly, he simplified his style into horizontal and vertical patterns. For Mondrian, who was heavily into Eastern mysticism, “up versus down” and “left versus right” were the perfect metaphors for life’s dualities: good versus evil, body versus spirit, fascism versus communism, man versus woman. The canvas is a bird’s-eye view of Mondrian’s personal landscape.

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