Taking a classic Mondrian painting beyond the boundaries of space and time

The later works of Piet Mondrian, one of the founders of the De Stijl artistic movement, are ripe for reinterpretation and reinvention using code based generative design tools. While Mondrian had left the De Stijl group in 1924, his subsequent paintings were still true to its principles and visual language, which Mondrian himself called Neo-Plasticism.

After evaluating several code tools based on Mondrian works, I used an script called Mondriaantje ('little Mondrian') to generate images, based on the unfinished 1944 work Victory Boogie Woogie.

Originally conceived as a representation of a specific time and place, (the anticipated end of WW2 in New York), this work frees the generated form from its picture frame — to take a De Stijl composition into the Suprematist realm.

The generative design work was imported to Cinema4D to create shifting, curved forms in space, a pure Suprematist composition

A generated image based on Mondrian's Victory Boogie Woogie

Generated forms imported into 3D

Animated forms free-floating in space - a Suprematist composition