Friday, July 17, 2020

2 comments:

Vincent said...

Thanks Natalie, wonderful tale & illustrations of your studio & works produced.

Your Guarani mural reminds me somewhat of Mondrian's early Paris period, e.g. https://www.piet-mondrian.org/composition-number-7.jsp or https://www.piet-mondrian.org/blue-facade.jsp --- was he an influence?

Natalie d'Arbeloff said...

Thanks Vincent. I guess any modern geometric abstract work could be said to be an influence but Mondrin wasn't interested in perspective or the illusion of depth whereas I am. What I actually based this mural design on was a much earlier painting of mine, an abstract apple, in which I reduced everything to vertical blocks of colour, getting smaller in the centre so that there's a sence of depth. The painting was quite small so of course I changed the proportions etc. for the mural but that was its origin.