Geometric Abstractions

Aswell as this trend of Psychedelic Hippies, Peace movements and being at one with nature another trend was set for our world in the 1930's. This was created by a man named Piet Mondrian. Mondrian was a dutch painter who was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement. He evolved a non representational form which he termed Neo-Plasticism, this consisted of white backgrounds containing grids of black linework and the addition of three primary colours. It was these kinds of paintings which Mondrian became most famous for. 

After this painting was made in the 1930's it has since then become a trend across the world! Many people have since been influenced by his bold, eye catching yet very simple style of painting. First of all in 2010 a very well known clothing designer named Sarah Schofield decided that she could not resist creating a swimwear line in response to Mondrians paintings. Aswell as this numerous designers have created a dress in the style of the painting, it reminds me very much of dresses in the 1960's so maybe they were inspired by the trend. Even the worldwide sports and shoe company Nike got involved with the trends when they actually created some sneakers with a very similar bold patterning!

Aswell as the links from Mondrian to fashion there has also been links in regards to album art and album covers. Mondrian influenced the creation of Paul Johns Jazz album cover which had a similar theme running throughout and I also recognised a similar patterning in the album cover for the band BeastieBoys. Although the colours did vary slightly a general geometric pattern was definitely present. Aswell as these influences I noticed that the singer La Roux who is a modern day artist also had a music video which contained the same white backgrounds, thick black lines and the same primary colour scheme. It seems as though this was a big trend to hit the nation from just a simplistic painting!