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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Mondrian set about destroying space, he replaced it with the golden-section grillwork that formed the cornerstone for abstract art. With his friend Van Doesburg he founded the magazine De Stijl, and, as shown here, spread the gospel of color geometries to Germany, Poland, Belgium, France, England, Scandinavia and the U.S. The most brilliant works of the master are missing, but the evolution of his spatial austerity is easily visible in early works and drawings, its potential for beauty stunningly manifest in such artists as Strzeminski, Vordemberge, Schwitters, Nicholson and others. Through...
GUGGENHEIM-Fifth Ave. at 89th. The work of Vincent Van Gogh: his Sunflowers and Cypresses, Harvest, Yellow House and Potato Eaters are among the 120 oils, watercolors and drawings on loan from his nephew's unique collection. Through June...
GREG WRIGHT Van Nuys, Calif...
Flown into New York City, to go on display at once at the Guggenheim Museum, were 120 Van Goghs (60 paintings and 60 drawings) strapped to seats in a jet. And Whistler's 92-year-old mobile Mother, lent by the Louvre, went on view in St. Louis...
Moving great works of art always stirs fears-vivid thoughts of a plane's crashing and burning with a considerable part of the work of Van Gogh, or the Pietà gently cracking in two along some unknown flaw line (although technicians, having bombarded the sculpture with X rays and cobalt 60 gamma rays, have discovered it to be the perfect piece of marble that Michelangelo said it was). Beyond fears for the safety of the art, its sponsors are given to worry over whether the likes of World...