Mondrian
Piet Mondrian, one the founders of the De Stijl art movement, sought to strip away the particulars and details of life in his art, and portray instead the beauty of the simple forms (lines and squares, geometric patterns) and colours that he saw beneath them: "I wish," he wrote, "to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects."
In 1965, Yves Saint Laurent produced 6 cocktail dresses that projected Mondrian's two dimensional designs onto the three dimensional bodies of women.
What does it mean to drape representations of the idealized "fundamental quality of objects" onto the curved, irregular, and very much particularized bodies of women?
This image is part of my upcoming exhibition at the ArtCare Gallery, "Geometries of the Human," which opens this Sunday, 13 August, at 12 Noon SLT.
Garment Credit: The dress in this image is a former gacha item produced by !Go
Mondrian
Piet Mondrian, one the founders of the De Stijl art movement, sought to strip away the particulars and details of life in his art, and portray instead the beauty of the simple forms (lines and squares, geometric patterns) and colours that he saw beneath them: "I wish," he wrote, "to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects."
In 1965, Yves Saint Laurent produced 6 cocktail dresses that projected Mondrian's two dimensional designs onto the three dimensional bodies of women.
What does it mean to drape representations of the idealized "fundamental quality of objects" onto the curved, irregular, and very much particularized bodies of women?
This image is part of my upcoming exhibition at the ArtCare Gallery, "Geometries of the Human," which opens this Sunday, 13 August, at 12 Noon SLT.
Garment Credit: The dress in this image is a former gacha item produced by !Go