Composition 10
by Piet Mondrian
1939-42
Oil on Canvas.
I construct lines and color combinations on a flat surface, in order to express
general beauty with the utmost awareness. Nature (or, that which I see) inspires
me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes
about to make something, but I want to come as close as possible to the truth
and abstract everything from that, until I reach the foundation (still just an
external foundation!) of things… I believe it is possible that, through
horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with
calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm, these
basic forms of beauty, supplemented if necessary by other direct lines or
curves, can become a work of art, as strong as it is true. Piet Mondrian 1914
PIET MONDRIAN is an anagram of I PAINT MODERN.
I find this rather curious in relation to my own name, Venus. I was named after the Frankie Avalon song "Venus" which is about Venus de Milo, the Goddess of Love and one of the most recognized art sculptures. I never intended on becoming an artist. I was kind of drawn into it. Perhaps you could dub it a 'calling'. And my most well known painting has been my modern reproduction of Botticelli's The Birth Of Venus. In my painting Venus is being "born" into color, as an awakening. In a lot of my photographs I happen to unconsciously tilt my head just like Botticelli's Venus.
Is it destiny? Perhaps we become what we were born to be.
Aphrodite of Milos, Venus de Milo
Between 130 and 100 BC
Marble
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
The Birth of Venus
by Sandro Botticelli
c. 1486
Tempera on Canvas
The Birth of Venus
by Venus
2008
Oil on Canvas Panel
