Word: mondricm
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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Dutch-born Piet Mondricm (1872-1944), pioneer of purest abstractionism, also felt fettered by objects. But where Kandinsky went off in a whirl, Mondrian painted straight, narrow paths. He finally became so ascetic that curves were too emotional for him, and he drew nothing but horizontal and vertical lines, convinced that the right angle was the purest "expression of the two opposing forces [which] constitute life." To the uninitiated, the result might look something like a linoleum pattern, but Mondrian spent days shifting colored Scotch tape around a canvas, hoping to achieve a perfect harmony of balanced rectangles...
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