Mondrian Moments

[Ryewolf]

Something a bit more arty/contemporary, from some painted wooden boards around the old bus station in Blackburn, which reminded me of work by Piet Mondrian.

[FUJI]

FLIPPING FANTASTIC!

 

These are just wonderful, very well taken and presented......less means more?

 

FUJI

[Ryewolf]

Thanks Fuji, I think my arty side took over today. I did get some funny looks though...

[EdwardL]

Not so keen on the first but love the perfect corners on the second - I'm not an angle person but do like that.  Last two are pleasant too.  As Fuji says, "Less is more"

[Korky]

I agree - very creative and very well presented. Good stuff!

Korky

[Ryewolf]

Thanks Edward and Korky.

[NannyFerret]

You do have a good eye for shapes and colours RW.

 

[Ryewolf]

Thanks Tina, I had been looking for similar things yesterday but couldn't find them in Accrington so I went to Blackburn this afternoon, just a quick 90 mins walk around. It was very tempting to clone out the blemishes, screwholes and marks....

[NannyFerret]

I think you would have lost the realistic look if you had cloned. I think it would have looked more like something made on the computer, this way, you can actually see that they are part of a structure.

[Ryewolf]

Yeah I know what you mean, still my clone finger was twitching... and where there are angles in the images it's because I tilted the camera rather than rotating the images afterwards.

[colinb]

I'm not sure about the last one but the rest are superb 

[ChrisLumix]

Great idea and choice of subject, well done

I think #3 is very Mondrianish (Mondrian-esque?). Did you see a series called - something like - Big City, Bright Minds last winter? One of the cities was Paris in the 20s, and Mondrian's studio was featured, which was really something else. There was an exhibition in the Tate  not so long ago, just about his studios:

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/mondrian-and-his-studios

You can see it in the top picture.

[ChrisLumix]

Just to add that in the 1960s, there were quite a lot of Mondrian inspired (mini) dresses around - Mary Quant designed some. They really looked good with Vidal Sassoon hair styles and white boots

 

Just found an YSL one -

​Damn - your image hasn't loaded Judy. And it's just my specialist subject too!!!

[Black Pearl]

Brilliant!

[ChrisLumix]

It's there for me Chris -  the link is  op-art.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/yves-saint-laurent-mondrian-shift-dress.jpg

wiith http://www   

inserted in front ......

​Both links take me to op-art's website, with a list of picture links down the left hand side, but in the main bit it says "Sorry, page not found".

Weird - the second time I clicked them, the jpg (on its own) loaded fine. Very odd.

[Ryewolf]

Thanks everyone, interestingly on the Canadian Grand Prix yesterday, the ladies who stand on the grid lane were wearing a very similar dress, but red/white/black.