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A 3 page comparison and contrast of Piet Mondrian’s Composition of Red, Blue, Yellow (1939) and Mark Rothko’s Yellow and Orange (1949). Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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to represent their era and their perception of the field of art. The following paper compares and contrasts Mondrians Composition of Red, Blue, Yellow (1939) and Rothkos Yellow and Orange
(1949). Mondrian and Rothko At first glance these two paintings are incredibly similar in that they are both paintings which present the viewer with nothing but geometrical structure. They
are both paintings which have blocks, in either square or rectangular format, of color. There is nothing else but this structure in the painting, in terms of subject matter. And,
it is this that makes them incredibly similar for most paintings, even abstract expressionist paintings, have much more going on in the painting than blocks of color. Another similarity
is found in the colors used. The colors of Mondrian are very similar to those later used by Rothko. Both paintings possess yellow and white and in this they both
possess what appears to be strong primary to a certain extent, although Rothkos is much more muddied in color than Mondrian. In both paintings the surface itself is a canvas
that is rectangular, and in both paintings each block of color is generally divided from the next by bands of one color or another. As mentioned, the colors used
are similar, but Rothkos colors do not seem as brilliant or vivid. There is a sense that Rothkos was clearly painted with a brush, and there is no indication of
that in Mondrians for his blocks are incredibly solid and concrete. Rothkos blocks are muddied, blurred, to a certain extent and do not begin and end as solidly and definitively
as do Mondrians. In Mondrians the blocks of color are clearly defined by black lines that separate the colors from one another, with no bleeding of colors, as though
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