EVOLUTION OF THE FLAT LINE
Piet Mondrian 1872 – 1944.
His characteristic horizontal and vertical black lines and primary colours on a white background are world famous and serve as a source of inspiration for many architects and designers of applied art.
He developed his own line – surface sculpture which he called neoplasticism.
His geometric-abstract works remained flat and flat 2-dimensional. Shortly before his death in 1944, Mondrian came to the conclusion that the line is actually also a BOUNDED flat plane as a precursor to the independent (further) evolution of the lines and the plane.
FROM FLAT PLANE TO RAISED RELIEF
Jan Schoonhoven 1914 – July 1994.
Around 1956-57 he started making his very first monochrome white reliefs, no longer in paint but in papier-mâché, to get a tangible appearance in his work.
The emphasis on the material was already palpable in the artistic air, which he recognized at the time in the plastic abstract paintings of Bram Bogart, who inspired him.
The representations in these first reliefs were created according to geometric surface principles. White reliefs, a rhythm and play of lines with raised texture (pasty) like white plastics, breaking out from 2- to 3-dimensional material work. But still on the wall.
THE ULTIMATE LIMITS OF RAISED RELIEF
Bram Bogart 1921 – 2012.
He began experimenting with the direct application of unmixed colors and the mixing of different types of paint, which gave his canvases a cement-like appearance.
In this way he in fact laid the foundation for his later ‘material art’. Geometric signs appeared for the first time in his chalky works in the post-war years.
From the 1980s onwards, geometric and monochrome works alternate with paintings consisting of enormous ‘paint dots’, which define the painting in a more or less regular pattern, while the line, the plane and the frame remain. Due to their weight, these raised relief material paintings are the highest that is technically feasible for 2-dimensional material artworks for a wall.
FROM PASTOUS FORM INTO SPACEFUL
Once ready to break away from the wall, planes and lines break out to free themselves from the static 2-dimensional straitjacket of flat plane and line NOW to the movable 3-dimensional free form to be observed in complete freedom around monochrome.
Neo spaziale mobilé 2024.05.19 LIBERATING THE LINE
360° two peformed sides.
W 125 x 75H x 50D Airplac, plaster, resin, paint.