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I founded my own comic in one of Piet Mondrian’s famous abstract paintings. These paintings placed Mondrian in fame and were a big part of the modern and abstract revolution. In contrast to previous paintings with realistic and secular values, Mondrian’s paintings are simple and elegant stills of colors and lines. Mondrian was characterized by paintings consisting of only a few strong colors, separated by perpendicularly intersecting completely black lines of different thicknesses. In paintings, the colors are most often the same shade of red, yellow and blue.

My cartoon is exploring one question. What if Mondrian's two-dimensional paintings were three-dimensional? In my work, an unknown tall man steps into one of Mondrian’s real paintings. The painting serves as a portal to the colorful and original world that the painting tried to depict. The concept of the painting requires a bit of brainstorming, but it makes sense. You can think of it this way: If you put a ball on a 2D surface, it would only look like a circle, and a cube, respectively, a square. Using the same logic, if the square painted by Mondrian was taken into the 3D world, it would, of course, look like a completely three-dimensional cube. The same concept can be used to understand the lines. In the 3D world, lines that looked straight can cross at a new depth axis. This is the theme of the whole work, the third dimension. However, if you looked at the imaginary 3D world from the perspective of the painting, it would look exactly the same, as only one half of the objects would be visible, giving the illusion of two-dimensionality.

The “idea” of the painting, then, is that for one reason or another Mondrian saw the world of the painting from only one direction, and painted the painting accordingly. “In reality, the board is a 3D space, possibly in another universe. I wanted to add an otherworldly nuance and reinforce the feeling that the painting is a different place somewhere completely elsewhere, not on Earth. For these reasons, as you step into the painting, the painting continues into eternity the same white emptiness that Mondriaan painted, and there is no gravity. This is also the reason why we see the man hovering in the middle of the emptiness of the painting. I also wanted the viewer to get the real scale of the objects in the painting, so a familiar object that was easily comparable and always relatively the same size was needed. If you think carefully, you can imagine the objects of the 3D world turned directly towards you. If you do, you will find that the vision is exactly the same as Mondrian’s original artwork. The colored cubes help you figure out where the different parts of the painting are located.

I don’t think the artistic aspect of this work particularly good. The idea of the painting, instead, is the main point of the work. I made the whole work of art with MS Paint and a computer mouse, so the work doesn’t necessarily depict my real skills, as I’m not that good at drawing with a mouse. However, I chose to do the work digitally because then I can easily make straight lines and use an almost endless number of different colors, including the original colors used by Mondrian. I chose Mondrian's work for inspiration, as Mondrian is one of my favorite artists and I have known of his works for a long time.

P.S sorry for the essay, I felt it was necessary to get the idea across in sufficent detail.

Description
I founded my own comic in one of Piet Mondrian’s famous abstract paintings. These paintings placed Mondrian in fame and were a big part of the modern and abstract revolution. In contrast to previous paintings with realistic and secular values, Mondrian’s paintings are simple and elegant stills of colors and lines. Mondrian was characterized by paintings consisting of only a few strong colors, separated by perpendicularly intersecting completely black lines of different thicknesses. In paintings, the colors are most often the same shade of red, yellow and blue.

My cartoon is exploring one question. What if Mondrian's two-dimensional paintings were three-dimensional? In my work, an unknown tall man steps into one of Mondrian’s real paintings. The painting serves as a portal to the colorful and original world that the painting tried to depict. The concept of the painting requires a bit of brainstorming, but it makes sense. You can think of it this way: If you put a ball on a 2D surface, it would only look like a circle, and a cube, respectively, a square. Using the same logic, if the square painted by Mondrian was taken into the 3D world, it would, of course, look like a completely three-dimensional cube. The same concept can be used to understand the lines. In the 3D world, lines that looked straight can cross at a new depth axis. This is the theme of the whole work, the third dimension. However, if you looked at the imaginary 3D world from the perspective of the painting, it would look exactly the same, as only one half of the objects would be visible, giving the illusion of two-dimensionality.

The “idea” of the painting, then, is that for one reason or another Mondrian saw the world of the painting from only one direction, and painted the painting accordingly. “In reality, the board is a 3D space, possibly in another universe. I wanted to add an otherworldly nuance and reinforce the feeling that the painting is a different place somewhere completely elsewhere, not on Earth. For these reasons, as you step into the painting, the painting continues into eternity the same white emptiness that Mondriaan painted, and there is no gravity. This is also the reason why we see the man hovering in the middle of the emptiness of the painting. I also wanted the viewer to get the real scale of the objects in the painting, so a familiar object that was easily comparable and always relatively the same size was needed. If you think carefully, you can imagine the objects of the 3D world turned directly towards you. If you do, you will find that the vision is exactly the same as Mondrian’s original artwork. The colored cubes help you figure out where the different parts of the painting are located.

I don’t think the artistic aspect of this work particularly good. The idea of the painting, instead, is the main point of the work. I made the whole work of art with MS Paint and a computer mouse, so the work doesn’t necessarily depict my real skills, as I’m not that good at drawing with a mouse. However, I chose to do the work digitally because then I can easily make straight lines and use an almost endless number of different colors, including the original colors used by Mondrian. I chose Mondrian's work for inspiration, as Mondrian is one of my favorite artists and I have known of his works for a long time.

P.S sorry for the essay, I felt it was necessary to get the idea across in sufficent detail.