Life per se its an Art...
I am personally intrigued by the thoughts of different artists, one of them is Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) who is one of the founding member of De Stijl, an art movement was founded by the painter and architect Theo van Doesburg in Leiden in 1917. It encompassed a new type of style in modern art and architecture. This movement used the artistic talent of the artists by designing homes, buildings, and furniture. Though this is an art theory, like the subject explains life is art, below extracted paragraphs can be placed in different contexts. Its up to your creative mind to plonk them into whichever area that resonates with you...Abstract Painting is the product of deeper feeling and deeper intellect. When feeling is deepened, in many eyes its is destroyed. That is why the deeper emotion of the New Plastic is so little understood. But one must learn to see Abstract-Real painting, just as the painter had to learn to create in an abstract way. It represents the process of life that is reflected in the plastic expression of art. People too often view the work of art as a luxury, something merely pleasant, even as a decoration, as something that lies outside life. Yet art and life are one; art and life are both expressions of truth. If, for instance, we see that equilibrated relationships in society signify what is just, then one realizes that in art too the demands of life press forward when the spirit of the time is ripe.
New Plastic expresses the essential of everything. Art is a duality of nature-and-man and not nature alone. Man transforms nature according to his own image; when man expresses his deepest being, thus manifesting his inwardness, he must necessarily interiorize natural appearance.
All expressions of life – religion, social life, art etc.. always have a common basis. That led one of us to found De Stijl. The ideas that De Stijl expounds can give you no more than a conception of the essence of the New Plastic and its connection with life: the content of the New Plastic can be seen only in the work itself. Only through intuitive feeling, through long contemplation and comparison, can one come to complete appreciation of the new.
Fixed law of art, which in Piet Mondrian’s opinion is the unity of man and nature.
Neo-Plasticism: The General Principle of Plastic Equivalence
Although art is the plastic expression of our aesthetic motion, we cannot therefore conclude that art is only ‘the aesthetic expression of our subjective sensations.’ Logic demands that art be the plastic expression of our whole being: therefore, it must be equally the plastic appearance of the nonindividual, the absolute and annihilating opposition of subjective sensations. That is, it must also be the direct expression of the universal in us – which is the exact appearance of the universal outside us.
The universal thus understood is that which is and remains constant: the more or less unconscious in us, as opposed to the more or less conscious – the individual, which is repeated and renewed.
Our whole being is as much the one as the other: the unconscious and the conscious, the immutable and the mutable, emerging and changing form through their reciprocal action.
This action contains all the misery and all the happiness of life: misery caused by continual separation, happiness by perpetual rebirth of the changeable. The immutable is beyond all misery and all happiness: it is equilibrium.
Through the immutable in us, we are united with all things; the mutable destroys our equilibrium, limits us, and separates us from all that is other than us. It is from this equilibrium, from the unconscious, from the immutable the art comes. It attains its plastic expression through the conscious. In this way, the appearance of art is plastic expression of the unconscious and of the conscious. It shows the relationship of each to the other: its appearance changes, but art remains immutable.
In ‘the totality of our being’ the individual or the universal may dominate, or equilibrium between the two may be approached. In all the arts objective fought against subjective, universal against individual: pure plastic expression against descriptive expression. Thus art tended toward equilibrated plastic.
Disequilibrium between individual and universal creates the tragic and is expressed as tragic plastic. In whatever exists as form or corporeality, the natural dominates: this created the tragic…
The tragic in life leads to artistic creation: art, because it is abstract and in opposition to the natural concrete, can anticipate the gradual disappearance of the tragic. The more the tragic diminishes, the more art gains in purity.
The new spirit can manifest itself only in the midst of the tragic. It finds only the old form, for the new plastic is yet to be created. Born in the environment of the past, it can be expressed only in the vital reality of the abstract…
Because it is part of the whole, the new spirit cannot free itself entirely from the tragic. The New Plastic, expressing the vital reality of the abstract, has not entirely freed itself from the tragic but it has ceased to be dominated by it.
In contrast, in the old plastic the tragic dominates, tragic plastic is necessary, for that is what creates it emotion. But as soon as a period of greater maturity is reached, tragic plastic becomes insupportable.
For let us not forget that we are at a turning point of culture, at the end of everything ancient: the separation between the two is absolute and definite. Whether it is recognized or not, one can logically foresee that the future will no longer understand tragic plastic, just like an adult who cannot understand the soul of the child.
At the same time, as it suppresses the dominating tragic, the new spirit suppresses description in art. Because the obstacle of form has been destroyed, the new art affirms itself as pure plastic. The new spirit has found its plastic expression.
At present each art strives to express itself more directly through its plastic means and seeks to free its means as much as possible. Music tends towards the liberation of sound, literature toward the liberation of word. Thus purifying their plastic means, they achieve the pure plastic of relationship.
I am personally intrigued by the thoughts of different artists, one of them is Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) who is one of the founding member of De Stijl, an art movement was founded by the painter and architect Theo van Doesburg in Leiden in 1917. It encompassed a new type of style in modern art and architecture. This movement used the artistic talent of the artists by designing homes, buildings, and furniture. Though this is an art theory, like the subject explains life is art, below extracted paragraphs can be placed in different contexts. Its up to your creative mind to plonk them into whichever area that resonates with you...