SOUL DANCE OF FORM AND COLOR by a touch of MONDRIAN - a bennoH. newPerspective

To celebrate Piet Mondrian's 154th birthday, I created the free Resolume Arena/Avenue plugin "Remembering to Mondrian - free&Easy" special for this 154th birthday of Piet Mondrian in 2026.

Requirements:

Resume Arena or Avenue 7.24.3 & a strong GPU

It may, however, run down to version 7.22.1

SOUL-DANCE OF FORM AND COLOR

by a touch of MONDRIAN

Piet Mondrian lets the soul of geometry dance to this day's – if no longer on canvas, then now on the screen.

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"Strict Lines, Primary Colors & Infinite Motion"

Resolume Generator – for free right now!

"Piet Mondrian didn't just paint squares; he decoded the rhythm of the modern world. Today, his influence lives on up everywhere like in architecture, fashion, advertising or the all around popular culture and of corse in the actual art.

With this plugin, I bring his vision to the digital stage and let it flow and fly in our new media world – a dance of primary colors in straight geometrics."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwyPvIIUqEU

I, bennoH., have now attempted in 2026 to create an alternative perspective on “De Stijl” in the age of real-time shaders.

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Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan,

born on March 7 1872 in the Netherlands, known as Piet Mondrian, was a pioneer of abstract art. He is best known as the founder of „De Stijl“ (Neo-Plasticism) and on of the primary founders of Constructivism and Concrete Art.

From the 1920s onwards, Mondrian created his iconic strictly geometric paintings characterized by black grids combined with rectangular fields in primary colors (red, blue, yellow) plus white and beige. These works continue to influence art, architecture, fashion, advertising, and popular culture to this day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR89s4iCV9k

Many know Mondrian only for his geometric late works, but few realize that in his early decades he painted landscapes and other figurative motifs, often with surprising use of color and in styles close to Impressionism, Pointillism or Cubism, which ultimately led him to the reductive "De Stijl".

His theoretical work "Le Néo-Plasticisme" was published in 1925 as Bauhaus Book No. 5 under the title "Neue Gestaltung" (New Design). This unmistakable statement also demonstrates the high regard in which his work is held for the modern art world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian

https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuPWcBHEqbc

How to get the PLUGIN FOR FREE

It's really easy and won't cost you a single dollar; I'm essentially giving it to you as a present. Send me a nice greeting to code.kills.videoloops@gmail.com and don't forget to mention that you've read and accepted the terms of service and license. If I like your greeting, I'll send you an email reply with the necessary download link.

Plugin-License:

The Resolomue Arena/Avenue plugin it self is licensed under the

„freeVJing License 1.7 Tight“.

Key License Terms:

• ✓ Free to use for VJing and live performances

• ✓ Free to use in commercial VJ performances

• ✗ No redistribution or sharing without permission (also applies to the cloud-DL-link!)

• ✗ No modifications, forks, or derivative works

• ✗ No resale or commercial redistribution

Full License Details: https://github.com/bennoH2025/freeVJing-license/blob/main/freeVJing%20License%201.7%20Tight.md

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,

use at your own risk!

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Tutorials on how to use the plugin

You can find some different setups that you can use as presets in my

Arena-Composition in 1080. Here is the video overview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7_fR28AQVg

& There are also 4 tutorial videos in which I explain the basics, the individual options and their interrelationships in more detail.

These videos are rather long, and experienced VJs can generally use the plugin immediately without instructions. However, if you're new to Resolume, I recommend watching these videos.

You'll also find a detailed user manual as a PDF in your download, i.e., the ZIP file.

Part 1/4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7HLXFJCmQw

Part 2/4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DHFjjDoTG0

Part 3/4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWbMtv4bIKU

Part 4/4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm6CXkPG3GM

Short installation instructions:

Download the folder"Remembering to Mondrian - free&Easy a resoPLugin by bennoH.". Extract the ZIP file it contains. In the folder "By opening, you accept the license", you will find one Arena/Avenue plugins. On Windows 10/11, please move these to your C drive: "C:\Program Files\Resolume Arena\plugins\wire". Next, you will find a Arena composition files. Move these to your Arena user folder, specifically to the compositions folder: "C:\Users\YOUR USERNAME\Documents\Resolume Arena\Compositions". Finally, there is the file " Genos-LightItalic." in the fulder " fonts.google.com", duuble-click this file to add it to your system fonts if it is not already present, as this font is used in my Arena composition. Only now should you start Arena, If something doesn't work, please send me an email describing the problem. Have fun!

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Actionpainting and Bois-Mondrian wild reMix by bennoH.

I came into contact with the relevant works of Piet Mondrian at a relatively early age, several years before my initial training in architecture, where this influence was later reinforced. I felt an immediate and profound connection to them, and over the years, one could even speak of a developing infatuation. Using various techniques, such as colored pencil hatching combined with stencils and/or smearing, as well as watercolors and pastelschalk, I created, among others near by copys, color tabolas with these striking primary colors of Piet.

Mutch later in 2008, when I had to produce a commercial for some regional television stations at my own one-man video production company, and the script I had written set the main plot in a gallery at an paintingart opening, I found a painter, an older women, who was willing to provide me with 18-25 paintings for the shuting. Suddenly, she demanded hotel stays to spend days setting up, i.e., hanging her pictures, and displayed all sorts of artistic posturing. So I have to quit that contact and I decided to create some pictures myself for the backdrop. In a kind of a action painting session over two days, I produced around 32 pictures, of which I deemed 26 good enough, and of those, 22 were ultimately used in the TV-spot.

I kept things economical and minimalist in creating the pictures; I didn't buy frames, canvases, or expensive paints. Styrofoam insulation boards, which I cut some a litle bit to size, & paintet along with interior emulsion paint and Herbol paints, were more than sufficient for my needs, in my opinion. And, of course, I applied the basic concept and idea of Piet Mondrian's well-known color panels to some of them.

From a today's perspective, these combinations created something almost spectacular, one might say: Created in an action painting session on materials that deteriorate over time, using equally ephemeral colors that fade over time - in the spirit of Josef Bois, but with the cool austerity and reductive subjects of Mondrian's vision - the resulting works are nonetheless highly original, yet also grounded in history and a combination of modernist concepts that is perhaps unparalleled. One cannot truly speak of chance; rather, it was a very deliberate process.

During the filming, the person responsible for the commercial from the commissioning company persuaded me to create two or three acrylic paintings on canvas for him personally lik them of the Video-Set. He liked my paintings so much that he immediately named a substantial purchase price, which I reluctantly agreed to, keeping one of these final paintings as a memento.

I still like almost all of them very much and I still enjoy using them to beautify my home to this day, and I often think when I look at them, "Maybe I should pick up a pen or brush again every now and then." But I soon dismiss this idea and tell myself, well, those were the days, but today I paint with light and shadow, and my paint isn't called acrylic or oil, but RGB.