Neo-Plasticism Piet Mondrian Was Trying Book Report

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Of course, he was not the only major Dutch artist involved it. In fact, Theo van Doesberg was the leading figure along with architect-designers Gefiit

Rietveld and J. .J. P- 0!d and Mondrian's fellow painter Georges Vantongerloo

The expressions of the art and architecture very much reflect Blavatsky's eastern influences. This is because of the expression of balance, just as the easterners would think of the Yin and Yang male and female aspects of humanity complementing each other and well as universal balance off against the individual. Old forms were obstacles to this new spiritual artistic realization and had to be eliminated. This school saw their work as unifying auguring against individual violence and irrationality in order to establish a universal order of peace and harmony, thereby appealing to the better angels of human nature behind the mindless primitive primate who we are, constantly at war with the world around us. This is an evolution to a higher form from a more base form. However, that base is not in and of itself bad.

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"Bad" tendencies can be mitigated by balancing off its opposite attribute. When they are out of balance and clashing, it is like matter and antimatter and they annihilate each other

The "plastic power" almost seems to hearken back to Plato and his forms where a physical object represents a perfect form in a more spiritual realm wherein resides the real essential nature of that physical object, plant, animal or person.

While this author can not conclusively prove the point based upon the limited class readings and personal knowledge, one can not help but be impressed by the emphasis upon geometry and see a connection, intended or not with Greek philosophical ideas that somehow were lost and now had to be rediscovered......

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