Having so thoroughly expressed my love for midcentury design, it should probably come as no surprise that my favorite painters come from the modern art category. I love the art nouveau work of Klimt, I love the whimsy of late Kandinsky, the color fields of Rothko, the cubism of Picasso, and of course, the clean lines of Piet Mondrian.
When I look at so many of those modern painters, but ESPECIALLY Mondrian, I think of quilts. Around the internet you can mind lots of quilters that were inspired by him, but I wanted to make a full on reproduction. His work just seems to beg for it.
I mean, look at this one! Or this! And of course, his masterpiece, Broadway Boogie Woogie.
The piece I chose to start with is called Composition: Light Color Planes with Grey Contours. Painted in 1919. I love the subtle differences in color, and the grays will work perfectly in my bedroom.
I printed a copy out months ago, and every few weeks I’d glance at it to try and figure out how I was going to construct the whole thing. Then the other day, in my procrastination marathon, I finally cracked it. I figured out how to take the image, size it to the finished size, break it apart to make 12″ blocks, and make each block eventually come together to complete the work of art.
It took two solid days of photoshop drafting, but I’ve got the pattern. Now it should just take me another year or two to get it made.
And somehow I’ve got to keep all the blocks straight in the meantime.
everything okay over there?
Oh Noonie, you sweet thing. I'm safe! I promise! Just horribly behind in blogging, but I'm coming to explain myself.