Word: mondrian
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...darlings, the painter Jackson Pollock. Formalist critics raved about his explosively gestural drips and splashes, but only so that they could begin talking about those marks as vehicles of existential self-expression. Likewise, formalists loved the austere combinations of line, plane and primary colors favored by the painter Piet Mondrian, but only because they offered a convenient segue into discussions of absolute harmony and abstract geometric balance...
...crease is all the area in between. A’s and B’s on a map are points unconnected by real land but joined by imaginary dotted routes. Even on the T, subway stations are connected by line drawings in bright primary colors that resemble Mondrian paintings...
...were seemingly endless racks of chiffon dresses, beaded jackets and floor-length feathered coats, many of which are indelibly etched on the minds of fashion mavens. Downstairs, in what was once the couture salon, an exhibit entitled "Dialogue with Art" highlighted some of Saint Laurent's iconic silhouettes: the Mondrian dresses, the Picasso homage of intricately beaded capes splashed with Cubist images, the Pop Art dresses indebted to Andy Warhol. In his heyday Saint Laurent was inspired by artists as much as by the women he dressed. These days it's unusual to see anything totally original in fashion, because...
Known for her creativity and her intense work ethic, she once said she had ambitions to be known as the “Goddess of Design” and cited Mary Quant and Mondrian as her primary sources of inspiration, according to the FM article...
...sympathy between representing something as a symbol and perceiving it in the world.” His large, abstract paintings blend geometry with hints of natural form just beyond recognition. In an untitled work from 2000, Ellis plays with the colors and repetitive rectangles iconic of Piet Mondrian. Strict, opaque rectangles become wavy, transparent lines, black shows through beneath white, and the canvas retains brush strokes, paint drips and slips of the palette knife as a residue of the artist’s process. In an untitled 1993 composition of brilliant red, black and creamy white rectangles, Ellis leaves...