Piet Mondrian and a Black and White Dog
2005 13.5 x 15.5" ~ 34.25 x 39.5 cm Hand Pulled Serigraph Print, 10 stencilsEdition 60 ~ Artist Proofs 6Originally I was thinking of doing something with black and white animals. Then I got the idea of using a Piet Mondrian painting as the background. Unfortunately, because of distance, I was not able to travel to a museum to see one of his paintings in person. However by using books that I owned, and by going through every thing my local library could get through interlibrary loan, and by checking the internet, I did manage to see quite a lot of Piet Mondrian’s work. I was rather surprised to discover that there seemed to be a texture to his paintings, although because I was looking at photographs, I am not sure weather he put it there, weather it was a quality of the photographs, or if it was simply a matter of the paint cracking over time. The background is a representation of a Piet Mondrian painting called “Composition with Red Blue and Yellow”, (he named a lot of paintings that). Because I had incorporated texture into the background, I wanted the dog to be a solid black and white silhouette.
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