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...closer together and rather more connected than in Italy or France. Artists circulated with more ease among them, so firmly shaped local "schools" are not so easy to find. But if there was one artist totally identified with Delft in the 17th century, it was Vermeer--the only great painter to be born there, live there and (in 1675, at the early age of 43) be buried there...
...transatlantic paintings get their name precisely from the changes Mondrian made to his works as the painter fled Europe from the threat of World...
...evidence of flux, of shapes and lines changing only slightly but changing perception dramatically is also the source of definition—Mondrian, with his constant revisions to his works secures his identity as a painter...
...Fogg does not just restore Mondrian to a painter but to a Modern artist worthy of consistent inclusion in the canon...
...technique aside, the Fogg establishes Mondrian not only as a painter but as a thinker—willing to challenge the traditional opposition between black and white and color and the opposition of shapes and lines. The Fogg’s superb exhibit allows opposition to become unity within the boogie woogie of a Mondrian...