Word: mondrian
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...slices of gable, white posts by the sea, sudden drop-offs of hill or throughway-these images of the California coast have found their way into them, but in a condensed and fully digested idiom whose sources, far back in the early 20th century, are Henri Matisse and Piet Mondrian...
...best images are of the single object, a thing in itself, conveyed in the most subtly pictorial manner. His photo of an apple tree in a bare winter field, circa 1898, has a wild, precise intensity whose only parallel, in painting, must be the apple trees painted by Mondrian as a young man. When he photographed a motif a second or third time (as he often did, sometimes decades apart), the images, of village houses in Châtenay or trees in the park at St.-Cloud, each announces its specific qualities of light, reflection, time of day, angle...
...looks innocuous enough-a brightly colored plastic widget that could have been designed by Mondrian. It was developed in 1974 by Rubik, then 37, an architecture professor, to give his students greater experience in dealing with three-dimensional objects. It has six sides, each with a different bright color. Each side is divided into three rows, each row into three smaller cubes ("cubies"). Each row can be made to rotate 360° so that one can twiddle the cube from top to bottom or from side to side...
European art of the more or less distant past, be it Dante or Giotto, Proust or Mondrian, cannot be properly appreciated without a great deal of study and contemplation. Harvard undergraduates in general do not think the art important enough to be worth the effort and devote most of their time to economics and biology. The faculty do little to convince them they are wrong...
...painted sculptures, where the coating of figures with primary red, yellow or blue gives them a ferocious visual punch while rendering them, in Segal's words, "more like abstract shafts of color." To take the colors associated with the most rigorous abstractionists of 20th century art - Mondrian and Barnett Newman - and use them in a piece like The Costume Party, begun in 1965, has a perverse aspect...