Welcome to my stop on the Fall 2018 edition of the Art with Fabric Blog Hop!
This is the SIXTH edition of the Art with Fabric blog hop, organized and hosted by Alida of Tweety Loves Quilting.
Alida has lined up a number of quilter-artists, and has asked each of us to create a quilt or fabric project inspired by:
“any “conventional/fine art” piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, music, book). Anything from ancient Egyptian art, to Leonardo, from Picasso to Michelangelo, from Boccioni to Pythokritos.”
“** THEME for this SIXTH edition of the hop** –> My favorite color is…
Come and celebrate the love for one color, it can be your favorite color of all time, or just the color that you have been loving this month.”
The Fall 2018 blog hop runs from November 5th to 9th, with 3 or 4 artists blogging each day about their artwork and inspiration. Check Alida’s Art with Fabric blog hop page for the complete schedule and links to all the participants’ blogs. Alida also has links to all the art-inspired quilted pieces from previous blog hops.
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My art quilt is inspired by the work of Piet Mondrian.
Piet Mondrian (1872 – 1944) was a Dutch artist who is most famous for his contribution to abstract art through works in which he used only the straight lines, the three primary colors (red, blue and yellow), and the neutrals of black, white and gray. He coined the term neoplasticism for this style.
Here is a typical example of his work, from WikiArt.org. The composition is asymmetrical, as in all of his mature paintings, with one large dominant block of color, here red, balanced by distribution of the smaller blocks of yellow, blue gray, and white around it.
I love the graphic look of Mondrian’s black grid lines, and the dramatic contrast of white, black and a limited palette of bright colors.
However, I have realized that primary colors are not my favorites. I’m more drawn to tertiary colors. My favorite color seems to change depending on what I’m working on – any bright color can make me happy. But if I had to pick one, it would be chartreuse.
So for my piece, I’ve used Mondrian’s typical horizontal and vertical black lines – although I couldn’t resist adding some circular lines! I have lots of white spaces, and a limited palette of tertiary colors, including several shades of chartreuse.
I used the same techniques (freezer paper templates, overlapped seams, trimmed and covered with bias tape) as described in this blog post.
Here it is pinned to my design wall. It’s quilted (with chartreuse thread), but not yet bound. I considered binding it with black, but I may add a thin white border instead – more Mondrian-like.
Last but not least, make sure you visit the blogs of today’s (November 6th) other artists to see what artwork they’ve been inspired by, and what their favorite colors are:
- Susan: https://desertskyquilts.
wordpress.com/ - Terry: http://www.terryaskeartquilts.
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I’ve long been attracted to Mondrian’s work. Your explanation was terrific describing your go to colors. The finished work is very well done, and interprets the subject well! Good job Terry!
I love it, Terry. Both the piece by Mondrian and your own interpretation. The curved lines give it a great deal of movement and life and the palette is absolutely delicious.
Nice take on the Mondrian, thrilled that another fiber artist interpreted an oil on canvas.
I had never heard of Mondrian and his art, but I LOVE your interpretation in fabric of his art!! I like the addition of your personal touch in the circle and color choice (I like your colors better than his too). How did you attach the bias tape? I have only used bias tape on a quilt once and used a double needle on my sewing machine to put it on the quilt top.
Oh wow, that is truly wonderful piece.
I, too, like Mondrian’s work, and your interpretation is wonderful! I think Mondrian himself might approve. =) Thanks for sharing your beautiful piece. You really are an artist.
Very attractive, and Mondrianlike without being a copy. The simpler the thing you are inspired by, the harder it is to be unique. But you did it. As others have said, the curve and circle are important additions. And yet they don’t take away from the right angle lines.
This is a fantastic piece. Love the addition of the circular lines!
Oh, yes. Just…YES. I like your colors better than Mondrian’s. And I love the addition of curves, too.
I really love how you took your own creative spin to the work by Mondrian. The inspiration source is clear, but I really really like the way you included the curves… and the color combination is just amazing!! Thanks for being part of the blog hop!!!