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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...
...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...
There is a permanent residue of ideas from early Abstractionists in Pousette-Dart's thinking -- notions about transcendence and spirituality that filtered in from fin-de-siecle cult figures like Madame Blavatsky and Rudolf Steiner, and that had more impact on Mondrian and Kandinsky than all the established churches put together. The effect is to downplay nature in favor of culture. "Nature does not satisfy art," one finds in Pousette-Dart's copious notes, cited in the catalog, "but art satisfies nature. Nature is dumb, while art is conscious, articulate, triumphant." This aesthete's idealism sounds unduly high flown. What...
...failed to reach their reserves and went unsold. On the night of the Van Gogh sale at Christie's, a Manet, The Bench, made only $16.5 million -- not chickenfeed, but still a disappointment considering Christie's presale estimate of $20 million to $25 million. In addition, an exceptional 1925 Mondrian made $8.8 million; Christie's estimate had been $12 million to $16 million...
Moskowitz's vividly imposing red windmill alludes to Mondrian's great early paintings of that motif. The side of the Yosemite cliff in The Seventh Sister, 1981, recalls Clyfford Still and, through that, the American Romantic tradition of heroic landscape. Such works do not escape the second-handedness that comes with quoted images, but at least they are quite without smug prophylactic irony...