Description
Piet Mondrian's abstract paintings and Jackson Pollock's art are widely recognized as opposite ends of the modern art visual spectrum.
We all know that Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) and Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) had very different and opposing lives.
Mondrian's genius is found in the combination of patterned elements, resulting in a profound aesthetic that triumphantly emerges from absolute simplicity. Pollock's paintings are chaotically fractal and complex, whereas Mondrian's are simple, clean, and straight lines.
Although Mondrian has always supported Pollock, their perspectives on abstract art are diametrically opposed.
Unlike Mondrian, who spent weeks organizing his works, Pollock painted his canvases on the floor quickly and spontaneously.
Despite significant differences in the creative process and method of execution, both artists saw their ultimate goal as reaching a level beyond life, which is only possible through the direct and profound aesthetic expression of nature.
The art world viewed both abstract forms at their peak with skepticism, unable to find a link between those works and the world he dealt with on a daily basis.
Both forms of abstract art are considered modern masterpieces fifty years later.
Pollock's work demonstrates that the visual complexity of his paintings is founded on fractal patterns, which can be found in a wide range of natural objects.
Furthermore, visual perception experiments conducted in collaboration with psychologists have revealed that fractal patterns have an aesthetic quality.
For the last fifty years, his work's precise concept of color rotation has been debated in art.
Although Pollack always avoided commenting on his works, he mentioned somewhere that: My interest goes back to the rhythm of nature.
The visual complexity of fractal patterns necessitates the use of descriptive perspectives that are fundamentally at odds with traditional Euclidean geometry.
The fractal dimension is an important parameter in this category because it numerically represents the ascending fractal relationship between patterns observed in different unfolding trends.
Pollock's style can be described as fractal expressionism rather than computer-generated, emotionless art. Pollock drew complex patterns in nature 25 years before the scientific discovery of fractals and demonstrated the ability to directly create and manipulate fractal patterns.
In the "Auroria" collection, I presented a two-way view of modern art in opposition to classical art, using dark points, crossed lines, and fractal shapes that I drew in monochrome in the background in the works of artists such as Kandinsky, Miro, and Pollock, and I used them in the foreground in the works of artists such as Mondrian, Gerrit Rietveld in the Neo-plasticism movement.
In the background, I've discussed another aspect of this point of view, Mondrian, and so on, using geometrical forms and pre-determined and conventional graphic structures and compositions.
The point here is that foreground colors and lines take their identity from the background, fade into it, and colors sometimes find identity by passing through background spots, and their nature is determined by the same spots.
This means that throughout the history of art, all of these theories and deconstructions have evolved into modern art by following different art schools before them and developing a distinct identity, and they are now regarded as the sparks and examples of modern art. The birth certificate of art is a chain that connects each node.
And this is an undeniable ratio that places the history of modern art behind the type of view and opinion that is either in favor of or against classical art.
"Auroria" implies a focus on the beauty and complexity of light and color. The name is inspired by the natural light displays in the sky known as auroras, which are often associated with mystery and wonder.
This project uses 27 different color palettes and five different background colors with varying rarities for form and colors.
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Created March 2023
Artist: @ChistaAi