I’ve been a fan of the De Stijl movement from the moment I was introduced, Mondrian in particular. I’m not sure if it is the Mathematical simplicity or the fact that something so free of clutter can be undeniably art. While I love the images, the straightforward no holds barred reductionist approach to art is even more fascinating to me. I don’t think I ever would have thought to reduce painting to a collection of basic primitives like that, but now that I know the plan I don’t think I can do anything but join in.
Mondrian and his contemporaries reduced their work to a limited set of geometric primitives. My goal is to find a new set of primitives from modern mathematics like non-linear differential equations, chaos theory and fractal geometry, as well as digging into systems from physics like relativity and quantum mechanics.