Art Movement Project Update #5: Artwork Final Product

If you read my previous posts, you'll know that I'm working on my De Stijl art project. However, if you didn't, "GO READ IT". De Stijl is an art movement in 1917 where the objects' aesthetics are transfigured to its bare or basic essentials such as form (shapes which are usually in squares and rectangles) and colour (usually the primary colours). Other than that De Stijl also represents an ideal Utopia or the representing an object in an idealistic form.

Rationale

It's funny how I got inspired to do this painting from playing Assassin's Creed (the first game in the series). I found the subject of the Templars using order, strictness, and stability to achieve peace an interesting prospect which puts humans on a grey area. Should we let people have this freedom or should we control their lives in hope to maintain peace in the world? It's very interesting as there are lots of arguments to this particular subject.

The rules that are associated with the standard De Stijl painting (red, blue, and yellow) shows a certain type of mindset that the portrait obeys. To me, these rules represent order, stability, and strictness because these rules are set from the early days of De Stijl. Van Doesburg, the original creator dislike other members of De Stijl who tries to bring something new to De Stijl. His stance on it is pretty much similar to that of the Templars.

On the other side of the wood, I painted the mirrored image with green, purple, and red. The reason behind this colour setup is that it represents the real mindset of the portrait or what goes on inside the mind of the portrait. The colour setup represents the Joker mentality. It looks very sinister and unpredictable as it does not obey the rules of any De Stijl standard paintings.

The message that I'm trying to bring is that the use of order, stability, and strictness to achieve peace is hard and may as well be a lost cause. Not everyone has the same mentality, some may have the Mr Bean mentality and someone else may have the Donald Trump mentality. So, getting all these different people with different mentalities to follow on one single path is impossible and might get you killed.

The other meaning of this painting is just the typical nerdy on the outside but crazy on the inside. Which is just a self-preference, and doesn't hold that much ground to it compared to the first meaning. I also needed to write more for this blog so that I won't look lazy to my peers and lecturers. Before I end this update, let me show you a picture I took with the painting.