Mondrian in the interior. Piet Mondrian and industrial design. Life among paintings

REVIEW OF HEROES

How did it all start? A week before the new year, we planned the next changes in the apartment, and, as usual in new apartment I wanted everything at once. I especially wanted this for the living room. At some point, the conversation turned to the “Housing Problem”, and we thought about how many applications you receive in general and how difficult it is to become the hero of the program. In the end, we decided to give ourselves New Year adventure and become participants in the Housing Problem. On the same day we filled and began to wait for our fate. They did not wait very long, on the eve of the new year a letter arrived with an invitation to the casting.

The invitation was for January 11th. A couple of days before the casting, everything was canceled and the date was moved to January 16 for Sergey's birthday. We realized that this was a sign and decided to take full advantage of the situation.

At the casting we were excited and a little nervous. We didn't prepare a speech, we rather prepared themes for improvisation. And at the moment when, after studying a bunch of documents, we were supposed to set a date for filming the casting, it turned out that the family that was supposed to be filming could not come, which means that there is time to film us. Of course we were ready. We already perceived everything that was happening as the beginning of our big adventure, because so many things coincided so that the shooting of the casting coincided with the birthday. We were on the rise - the energy was overflowing, and we filmed the casting in one breath.

And then there was the wait. We read forums, reviews of participants and understood that anything is possible, they may not call back at all. And at the moment when we were already prepared to wait patiently and for a long time, there was an unexpectedly early call from the producer. Only a week has passed since the shooting at the casting, and we are already approved heroes of the program. What can you say? Surprise, joy, happiness! They immediately rushed to inform all relatives and friends.

They came to visit us two designer girls. We had a nice chat about the room and waited for the approval of the layout. And here is the long-awaited call, but with unpleasant news: the design project was not approved - we are changing the designer on the project. Then Andrey Volkov came to us. From the very beginning it seemed to us that we would succeed with Andrey. So it all happened in the end. After all the latest agreements, our exile began from the first days of summer.

Life in exile was a real test for us. Starting from an extreme move and preparing an apartment for repairs and ending with life in a new place. I had to explore a new area, new infrastructure. We lived a little out of our element. But the most difficult, of course, was to guess about the future design of the living room. Especially after the surprise item that was shown to us on the day of check-out. Whatever came to mind with this roll of black tape. Let's face it: this subject slightly discouraged us and in some ways even frightened us. But we did not lose heart and, having decided that the black ribbon is just a strip dividing the space of the room into zones, we were optimistic about the future design of the room.

What were you afraid of? Probably too sharp contrasts, too bright and large accents. I wanted more comfort and tranquility.

Encounter in exile was also memorable. It was the first day in 20 years when Sergei tried himself on a bicycle and a scooter. Against the backdrop of a flurry of emotions on the topic of skiing, we were brought out the next item from the interior - a bright geometric clock. We love the color combinations and contrasts. But the watch design itself did not go out of my head for a long time - it was familiar. We sat down at the Internet and at some point realized that this is a watch made from a painting by Mondrian. Having looked at the work of the eminent abstract artist, we were convinced that nothing terrible awaits us in design. The color palette, the combination of contrasts - we liked everything.

Finally - the day of filming and returning home. The long-awaited day of filming arrived.

You know, getting into a dream room, a room where everything is arranged harmoniously, thoughtfully and, in the end, very beautiful, it is difficult to convey the wave of emotions that you are experiencing at that moment.

We enter the room, and in the first seconds an understanding comes - we like everything. And in the next seconds, a burning interest comes - what we like and why. I want to touch everything, open, close - learn to live in this beauty.

It's been three weeks after repair, and we still can not believe in our happiness. Andrey Volkov coped with the design of the living room "perfectly well", and the workers realized it with a very high quality.

Thanks a lot the whole team project. To all producers, administrators, film crew, designer Andrey Volkov and a charming presenter for an amazing, somewhat extreme, fun and unforgettable adventure!

The only small minus It's the lack of air conditioning. But over time, we will correct this small omission.

The Elizarov family

Pieter Cornelis Mondrian (1872 - 1944) - Dutch artist who initiated the abstract movement in painting, along with Kandinsky and Malevich. At the first glance at his works, their genius and simplicity are immediately read - three colors are combined with a perfectly even cell of different sizes. This technique influenced such trends as minimalism and pop art, as well as the design of the 20th and 21st centuries.

What is the point?

The clear geometric shapes of Mondrian fit perfectly on almost any surface and elevate an ordinary object to the level of art. It all started in the 1930s, when the artist lived in Paris. He caught the attention of fashion designer Lola Prusak, who at the time was working for the Hermès fashion house. Lola was very imbued with the work Dutch artist and created a line of bags and suitcases with red, blue and yellow square inserts. The next fashion figure to take notice of Mondrian's paintings was fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, who in 1965 produced several "Mondrian" woolen mini-dresses with Pete's signature pattern. It was thanks to this French fashion designer that Mondrian finally established himself in the world of high fashion. After that, many fashion houses also began to use Pete's signature style in their collections, but alas, they did it with impermissible liberty - the blue color was removed from the DVF dress, and yellow was replaced with beige, at Moschino the red rectangle was turned into a signature heart, and the British designer Vivienne Westwood sewed a green sleeve to the classic red-blue-yellow plaid.

Where else is there?

Today, Piet Mondrian's trademark "colored grille" can be found almost everywhere. It is placed on shoes - from Laboutin to Nike, it looks great on swimsuits, hats, clutches, t-shirts and even socks. In addition, this pattern is also placed on furniture, interiors, house facades, cars, bicycle saddles, hair styling products, tangerine soap (because soap makers appreciated the combination of “Mandarin Mondrian”) and phone cases. There are also quite sudden applications - in the city of Khimki, Moscow Region, there is a pedestrian crossing painted in this style. And in Moscow itself, in 2016, the Rumyantsevo metro station was opened, where you can enjoy Mondrian's smooth multi-colored rectangles in full. But the programmers went the furthest - they created the Piet programming language, which looks like a multi-colored mosaic.

I saw it too!

You can list for a long time all the surfaces and locations where Piet Mondrian's painting language fits perfectly. Where did you see him? Share your observations and photos on our Facebook page. Be sure to tell your friends about this legendary artist, whose work, created at the beginning of the 20th century, is reflected in modern objects and spaces.

Piet Mondrian was original in that he was one of the few artists for whom art was a medium without independent value. He suggested forgetting the variety of forms, then there would be no need for large sculptures and paintings, and then people would live in art. Thus, in the future, harmony would become equal to art in the future. The highest task of art is to discover the scheme of nature, which has a clear structure, which lends itself to mathematical analysis. Primary natural elements manifest themselves as horizontal-vertical, plane-line, color-not color.

All this should be present in the picture in a state of harmony and balance, as a work of art shows perfect combination matter and spirit. Together with the artist Theo van Doesburg, he founded the "Style" movement and the magazine of the same name. De Stijl became the organ of neoplasticism - this is a meticulous transfer of beauty by the most ascetic means - primary tones, lines, forms. Mondrian considered the principles of neoplasticism to be universal, applicable in all spheres of life, including the social system. What can we take for ourselves from the work of this avant-garde artist? Many principles of his work remain relevant today. Let's try to figure out what it could be interior in Mondrian style.

The main features of interior design in the style of Mondrian

1. Use of straight lines and simple shapes. will display a harmonious combination of matter and spirit.
2. Use simple open colors. The combination of multi-colored flat planes will make the interior strict, but not boring.
3. Clear division. Clear correct shapes and colors, competent divisions.

Means the opposite of everything traditional. This is an explosion of color, a departure from the usual forms. We can create this style for you if you are ready for everything unusual, creative and have your own style in everything!
Live well! :)

Learn more about avant-garde interior design in our next article...

However, like other artists, he was never interested in the personal life of Piet Mondrian, especially after the cut off ear of Van Gogh. It turned out in vain! Judging by the film, his categorically finished canvases are just "plans, facades and sections" of the space in which he lived and worked. The thumping lines and blobs of his painting are a reflection of the rhythms of his favorite jazz and boogie-woogie.

For those who are not familiar with Mondrian's "new plastique", I have chosen these four of his squares. In my opinion, they illustrate the transformation of his painting from understanding the meaning of line, spot and color to understanding the interaction of two-dimensional and three-dimensional world.

Although, as you probably already understood, I had no idea about the existence of Mondrian's three-dimensional experiments, and the question of what Piet Mondrian is in three dimensions interested me most of all. However, not only me and not only now. His contemporaries - colleagues and friends in the De Stil group left us some amazing options. Of these, I especially love the house, chair and table of the architect Gerrit Rietfeld.

Ritfeld chair.

Ritfeld's house.

Ritfeld table.

It's time to return to the film about Mondrian. It became possible due to the fact that several years ago the interiors of Mondrian's Parisian apartment and studio were restored in the Berlage gallery in Amsterdam. They restored it carefully and even conducted research on the original varnish, which Pete himself used many years ago. It turned out quite well, in my opinion. Below you can see original photographs of the Mondrian studio from the 20s of the last century and a few shots taken at the exposition in Amsterdam.

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ABOUT THE FILM

In Russian, it is called uncomplicated "Piet Mondrian", in English version- In Mondrian's Studio. 2010, France, director: Francois Levy-Kunz.

Plot: creativity, personality and musical tastes of Mondrian in the Parisian and partly in the New York period.

Mondrian moved to Paris in 1912, settled and organized a studio at number 26 on Rue du Départ, in the Montparnasse area. The studio for Mondrian was more than just a place to practice painting. The authors of the film claim that he used her space to formulate his views on the relationship between painting and architecture in accordance with the rules of neo-plasticism. The black floor and white walls form the main contrast. On the walls he draws black, yellow, red and occasionally blue rectangles. Furniture and all other items of the room, painted in similar colors, occupy an exact, compositionally verified place. His own paintings in miniature support the lines and spots of the composition. An important addition is three rectangular mirrors and two high easels - white and black. It is noteworthy that Mondrian did not use them for their intended purpose, but usually wrote on the table or on the floor. The easel was just a compositional element for him, black lines against a white wall or white lines against a black floor.

These two frames of the film clearly demonstrate the situation I have described, but in motion everything is perceived differently. So watch the movie below.

Online movie:)

Or a torrent for those who wish, download!

THE WORLDS OF PIET MONDRIAN

This is nothing but the endless attempts of his followers, imitators and compilers to project the philosophy of neo-plasticism into the modern objective world. First of all, these are interiors and their content. Well, the girls, as without them.

A watch, an upholstered stool and a wheelbarrow a la Mondrian.

A sandwich:)

Goodies!

Just a gif.

Fonts in the style of Mondrian.

What the hell is this, I don't get it.

In this making of Rakan, Jandali talks about the interior design process inspired by the work of Mondrian.

I was inspired to create this room by Piet Mondrian's 1920 work called Lozenge. I really like how he used straight black lines and geometric figures red, yellow and blue.

The working process

I, like most 3D artists, work in Linear Space (LWF), which helps create photorealistic renderings. In order to configure it in 3ds Max, you must run the command Preferences > Gamma and LUT, click Enable and set all parameters to 2.2.

3 D-modeling

I wanted the bedroom to have Mondrian lines that would divide the space into 5 different parts and make the interior special.

The walls of the room were modeled in 3ds Max by extruding a spline. I modeled the ceiling in the same way, then I made small intervals between its components so that the ceiling let the light through.

The lines of the windows and the TV were also inspired by the works of Mondrian and were modeled in the same way as the interior.

Interior furniture, in particular the sofa and armchairs, were modeled after the lesson of Ramon Zancanaro. I deliberately gave the bed a slightly angular look, which additionally emphasized the interior of the room.

I modeled the coffee table and other elements of the interior in 3ds Max from primitives, nothing military.

I created the floor using the Floor Generator script, the settings of which can be seen in fig. below.

After that, I converted the geometry created using the script into polygons and started randomly moving individual bars up or down. The same effect can be achieved using the Tilt section of the Floor Generator script.

I created the load-bearing wall from several cubes, also randomly shifted. I assigned a V-Ray light material shader to the sides to give the cubes extra dimension.

Camera settings

For this scene, I used the V-Ray Physical camera with the following settings:
. Film Gate: 40
. Focal Length: 20
. F Number: 8
. White Balance: Neutral
. Shutter Speed: 15
. Film Speed: 150
. Exposure, Vignetting and Depth of Field: On

Render settings

There was also nothing military in the render settings, I spent some time experimenting with different settings until I settled on a more suitable option for me.

Final render settings

Lighting

The lighting was also very simple, I used a few V-Ray lights and a V-Ray Sun. I placed the two main lights like Skylight Portal by the window, the rest of the lights were regular V-Ray lights in a warm shade.

Before moving on to texturing, I usually do a test render in grayscale, which helps me to better identify problems in the light settings.

Light settings

Texturing

To texture the scene, I used standard V-Ray materials. Floor textured with texture wooden beams, which I set to Diffuse in the Material Editor, then I used the same texture for Reflection and Bump.

For the fabric of the chair, I created a Falloff map, which I then hung on Diffuse and Reflection. Next, I created a black and white version of the same map for Bump. The sofa had the same settings, only the texture was blue.

For bearing wall i used two various material, one was created in V-Ray using the Dirt map, the second was almost identical to it, but without the Dirt map map.

Then I did some test renders to make sure I was on the right track.

post-processing

In my opinion, the post-processing process is no less important than the rest of the stages. For post-processing, I most often use Photoshop, less often like After Effects and Lightroom.

I started by adjusting the brightness and contrast, did some color correction based on the alpha and texture maps.

I created the alpha using two standard V-Ray materials black and white color. On the objects that I was going to adjust in Photoshop, I assigned a white material, on the rest black.

Then I went over the image with the Burn and Dodge tool to make it more realistic and also to enhance the shadows. I added some bokeh with Diffuse Glow and a chromatic aberration correction filter, removed the distortion and finished with a vignette.

I then rendered an Ambient Occlusion (AO) map, which I then layered in Photoshop on top of the final render in Multiply mode. I had to tweak the Opacity a bit, but this added shadows and highlighted the details of the image.

I hope that making of was useful for you and that you learned something new.