Word: mondrian
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...modern age and the mob of mankind. This is the "No" that is countered by the affirmative "Yes" of Matisse, Lachaise, Brancusi and Delaunay, Joyce, Nabokov and Chagall, along with "Yes" shelfmates W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Richard Wilbur, Hemingway, Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Mondrian, Brancusi and Alexander Calder...
...lived as long as Monet, Seurat would have been a hale duffer of 70 when his many heirs, like Mondrian, were coming into their maturity as artists. What would he have left behind him by then? Possibly -- if one can guess from his last big paintings like Chahut, 1889-90, and Cirque, 1890-91 -- something quite different from the calm, composed "Egyptian" classicism of his best-known work, the sublime Un Dimanche a la Grande Jatte of 1884-86. For the last paintings are more frenetic, more consciously urban and, above all, more influenced by mass culture (the posters...
Another subject he has written about extensively will be taught in a spring course, Fine Arts 176x, "Piet Mondrian and De Stijl." The class will examine the early 20th century movement and collaborative effort among a group of Dutch artists and architects...
Bois is a prolific scholar. He has written several books, many articles and numerous reviews of exhibitions and printed works. His topics have varied from Piet Mondrian to El Lissitzky, and from the theory of Dutch architecture to Cubism...
...desire to get art down to its ultimate components and endow it with the communicative power of total austerity is very much a 20th century one. It begins with Mondrian's grids and Malevich's black square, sheds its mysticism in America and re-emerges as factual, what-you-see-is-what-you-get Minimalism. Reinhardt's work was part of this process: he cleared the way for Minimalism without being at all interested in its factuality...