Word: piet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...directors, D. W. Griffith and Eisenstein, he achieves compositions of masses in motion that have esthetic force and balance. When the soldiers circle their king, they are humble spokes of fealty wheeling around the hub of majesty. Men wounded and dying are draped onstage with the comely anguish of Pietàs of the battlefield...
...PIET MONDRIAN-Frumkin, 32 East 57th. Mondrian depicted nature-before he stripped it to its bare essentials-in scenes of Dutch windmills, rivers and forests. These drawings and oils, done between 1905 and 1908, show keen insights and rhythmic vitality in a self-assured style, but offer little indication of the plastic purist he was to become (through May 23). For that, see "Mondrian, De Stijl and Their Impact," at Marlborough-Gerson, 41 East 57th, where his spatial austerity and its potential for beauty is fully realized in his own and in the works of 22 followers. Through...
...Dutch art movement, whose standard-bearer was Piet Mondrian, made more than rules for good design. It was a heavily Platonic philosophy of art, carried out in mighty Pythagorean paintings, that saw pure beauty as the universal means of reaching Utopia. Wrote Mondrian: "Abstract art is opposed to the raw primitive animal nature of man, but it is one with true human nature...
...Pietà's flawless marble is shielded from spectators by an almost invisible Lucite sheet that can deflect a .45-cal. bullet. Visitors are drawn past the Pietà on three tiers of conveyor belts. They have from 60 to 90 seconds to feast on its beauty, unless they take to a fourth, motionless tier 24 feet from the sculpture. Even then, they may not have time to marvel how the Renaissance sculptor made the crucified Christ so anatomically human and so tranquil in following his agonizing death...
Some critics are horrified by the whole thing. Sniffed the New York Times's oft-embattled John Canaday: "The statue looks somehow helpless and cold, as if being subjected to refrigeration." Retorted Mielziner: "I have seen the Pietà on and off for 22 years, and never have I seen it look better...