Stylistic reproductions of Mondrian’s Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue

Shape grammars are employed for analyzing and delineating the formal structure of Mondrian’s painting. The proportionality (dynamic equilibrium or commensurability) embedded in the structure of the artifact is optimized with Genetic Algorithms. The optimization process introduced in this paper allows a user’s intervention to provide a guided search for finding stylistic reproductions of the original. Two types of the stylistic reproductions are conducted: 1) generating formal descendants of the original, and 2) tuning the original structure. The implementation of the reproductions is described also.