Piet Mondrian

Composition C (No.III) with Red, Yellow and Blue 1935

Dutch pioneer of abstract art, who developed from early landscape pictures to geometric abstract works of a most rigorous kind. Born in Amersfoort, Utrecht. Studied painting at the Amsterdam Academy 1892-4 and again, part-time, 1896-7. Friendship with the painter Simon Mans and painted landscapes in the Hague School tradition. Began to work in a more vividly coloured and sometimes pointillist style in 1908, joined the Theosophic Organisation in 1909 and made some works of a Symbolist character.

 

Pantone - Colour of 2014

Pantone have revealed the colour for 2014 as 18-3224 Radiant Orchid. Such a beautiful dramatic shade of purple, Radiant Orchid complements olive and deeper hunter greens, and offers a gorgeous combination when paired with turquoise, teal and even light yellows.

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Jean-Michel Frank

Jean-Michel Frank

Jean Michel Frank was not a minimalist. Some view him as a 1930's maitre of minimalism, However Frank was surprisingly multidimensional.

Frank's life was sadly tainted in 1915 with the death of his two brothers in ww1. His father committed suicide. In 1928, he lost his mother who had been in a Swiss asylum for several years.

Jack Vettriano

Born in Fife, Scotland in 1951, Jack Vettriano left school at sixteen to become a mining engineer. For his twenty-first birthday, a girlfriend gave him a set of watercolour paints and, from then on, he spent much of his spare time teaching himself to paint. In 1989, he submitted two paintings to the Royal Scottish Academy’s annual exhibition; both were accepted and sold on the first day. 

The yellow effect!

Mixing antiques with zesty colors for a more contemporary feel. so much fun!