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As noted on the main Mondrian pictures page, in checking the cover of Usborne's Understanding Modern Art, it occurred to me that there should be a classification of all the relevant paintings from 1920 onwards, listed by the number of primary colour planes, so the Usborne cover would be "112", i.e. 1 red, 1 yellow and 2 blues. The data was assembled, including counts of black and white/grey planes and the most efficient analysis seems to be RYB plus black.
Suffixes have been added to the picture IDs to denote D(iamond), F(acsimile), R(econstruction) or U(nfinished).
And I might call this coding system the Blackburn-Mondrian Index.
14th August 2011- Adding the links - this will take some time. I might then try a v4 with nested tables as I now have Dreamweaver to help. v3 completed on 20th August.
| R-Y-Bl-Bk | Work(s) |
|---|---|
| 0000 | 
 B169D, B176D, B211D, B218D, B223, B224, B229D, B243 |
| 0002 |  B166 |
| 0010 | 
 B173D B244 B250U B258 B259 B277 B309 |
| 0011 |  B183 |
| 0100 | 
 B177R B220 B221 B231 B237 B242R B248U B251U B253 |
| 0110 | 
 B165D B174R B192 B197 B208 B215 B225 B228 B234 B235 
 B236 B238 B240 B256 B263 B267 B271 |
| 0111 | 
 B171R B193 B207 |
| 0120 |  B143 |
| 0200 |  B264 |
| 0210 |  B270 |
| 1000 | 
 B170 B172 B175R B181 B186 B226 B232 B245 B249U B254 
 B255 B282D B292 |
| 1001 | 
 B189 B214 B269 |
| 1010 | 
 B148 B184 B195 B209 B227 B230 B268 B272 |
| 1011 |  B157R |
| 1100 | 
 B198 B265 |
| 1110 | 
 B134 B158R B161R B164R B182 B185 B187 B190 B191 B194F 
 B196 B200 B201 B216 B217 B219 B222 B233 B261 |
| 1111 | 
 B124F B125 B127D B131 B135 B137 B138 B139 B142 B144 
 B145 B146 B147 B149R B150 B155 B156D B159 B162 B163 
 B180R B203 B204 B205 B206 B212 B213 |
| 1112 | 
 B120 B126 B128 B129 B210 |
| 1113 |  B136 |
| 1121 | 
 B132 B202R |
| 1122 |  B160F |
| 1131 |  B117 |
| 1140 |  B311 |
| 1210 |  B199 |
| 1211 |  B141 |
| 1212 |  B114 |
| 1213 |  B307 |
| 1231 |  B118 |
| 1400 |  B273 |
| 2000 |  B278U |
| 2010 |  B239 |
| 2110 | 
 B188 B297U |
| 2111 | 
 B123 B152D B298U |
| 2112 | 
 B115 B306 |
| 2121 |  B122 |
| 2130 |  B308 |
| 2210 |  B119 |
| 2312 |  B130 |
| 2341 |  B318 |
| 2433 |  B116 |
| 2732 |  B108 |
| 3000 | 
 B262 B266 |
| 3010 |  B304 |
| 3310 |  B317 |
| 3323 |  B110 |
| 3332 |  B109 |
| 3410 |  B320 |
| 3432 |  B106 |
| 3434 |  B105 |
| 3553 |  B153 |
| 3622 |  B322 |
| 4120 |  B310 |
| 4201 |  B316 |
| 4220 |  B284 |
| 4310 |  B315 |
| 4323 |  B154 |
| 4445 |  B104 |
| 5010 |  B313 |
| 5250 |  B314 |
| 5451 |  B107 |
| 8011 |  B312 |
| lines | 
 B241, B300U, B301, B302U, B303U, B319, B321, B323, B324 |
| other | 
 B111 B112 B167 B168 B178 B246U B247U B290U B291U, B305 |
| Prior versions | B113-B153, B121-B154, B133-B155, B140-B157, B151-B156, B252-B258, B257-B306, B260-B307, B274-B310, B275-B320, B276-B311, B279-B308, B280-B309, B281-B312, B283-B321, B285-B313, B286-B314, B287-B316, B288-B317, B289-B303, B293-B304, B294-B32, B295-B315, B296-B318, B299-B319 |
13th August 2011- Now working on v2 of the table, adding images with links to the main picture pages. Not every picture on the main pages has an ID to link to (links seem to work only fitfully within tables), but the aim is to get the user within five images of the target - not a particularly elegant or satisfactory solution.
[Later...] Completed loading up the initial picture images with several mistakes found and corrected. I think I will link the small images on this to page to the full image of each painting. I am adding suffixes to the picture IDs to denote D(iamond), F(acsimile), R(econstruction) or U(nfinished).
And I might call this coding system the Blackburn-Mondrian Index.
11th August 2011- In assembling the data, I included counts of black and then of white or grey planes. Once compiled, my first assessment is to extend the key to include black, but not white/grey. Here is the first summary, showing the work numbers but no images. As usual, I start with B104 from 1920.
9th August - 2011 As noted on the main Mondrian pictures page, in checking the cover of Usborne's Understanding Modern Art it occurred to me that there should be a classification of all the relevant paintings from 1920 onwards, listed by the number of primary colour planes, so the Usborne cover would be "112", i.e. 1 red, 1 yellow and 2 blues. It might be necessary to consider lines and planes of other colours (grey and white), but I'll try the RYB first.