Ditty Ketting

Ditty Ketting can certainly be counted among the artistic heirs to Mondrian and ‘De Stijl’, even if the inheritance has passed via various generations and a diversity of paths. Mondrian still had to become one of the first artists to start working in an abstract manner, with great effort reclaim this abstraction from visible reality. He had to substantiate this in many theoretical debates, associating his painting with a metaphysical worldview. But once he had found an expressive form for his ‘New Imaging’ he never again deviated from it. Infinite variations were possible within the rules and there was always the fresh challenge of searching for an harmonic balance with elementary visual means.