Word: mondrian
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...that crowds gathered outside the Dior headquarters on Paris' Avenue Montaigne, crying "Au balcon!" until he emerged on the balcony to wave. Branching out under his own name, he scored again, producing 1962's long tunics. Successive years brought flat shoes and knee socks, velvet knickers, the Mondrian look followed by theatrical African designs, then chains and more chains, and now pants...
...wires from the roof. "This is a very great work," said Director Haftmann last week. "But we've got to learn how to use it." For opening day, he showed that he is learning fast by mounting a display of 73 suitably square-rigged paintings by Piet Mondrian in the gallery...
...selecting his paintings, Janis hewed to his favorite thesis: the greatest artists of each generation are usually the least understood by their contemporaries. Mondrian and Leger, who Janis believes will stand the test of time better than Picasso, are represented by eight Mondrians, four Legers. Still, Picasso is there with a thorny 1928 Painter and Model, which the Modern's Al fred H. Barr Jr. ranks as one of the most valuable pictures in the collection. What kind of test other than difficulty does Janis apply to art? It must relate to the tempo of the time, says...
...reason Western critics may have cottoned to Ikeda sooner than his countrymen is that his art is frankly influenced by the West. He works only in red, blue, yellow and black, partly because Piet Mondrian used these colors...
Oblongs & Squares. The Ontario pavilion subdivides its screen into as many as 15 geometric oblongs and squares, like a Mondrian painting, then shatters it into shards of indeterminate shapes that sometimes cooperate, sometimes compete with each other. As a portrait of a province, the film is less than full length; the footage of sailboats, jets and forests all but disappears beneath the glittering surface of the show's broken-screen technique...