PET without pi

…Dali knew that with the rejection of reason preached by the modernists, surrealists would not be able to grow into an understanding of the subconscious since this would end up in a depreciation of the power of intellect to comprehend truth. To him it was all a farce. “Completely idiotic critics have for several years used the name of Piet Mondrian as though he represented the sum mum of all spiritual activity. They quote him in every connection. Piet for architecture, Piet for poetry, Piet for mysticism, Piet for philosophy, Piet’s whites, Piet’s yellows, Piet, Piet, Piet… Well, I Salvador, will tell you this, that Piet with one i less would have been nothing but pet, which is the French word for fart.” Read More:http://www.gosurreal.com/dali_vs_picasso.htm

---Of course Mondrian didn’t start out painting squares and rectangles—growing up during the tail end of Impressionism, Piet Mondrian’s first paintings were consistent with that time period, as well as the Post-impressionism of Van Gogh. Later on he also took cues from Braque and Picasso, although he soon formed a very distinct style all his own.

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