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cut off from the past: and a long way from home

There is always much talk of the occult in art,the dark side of modern art, the falsification to no end, the artifice, the signs of horror, the negation of beauty and above all, the inability to love. We can think … Continue reading

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THE FUSSY BACHELOR: “BRILLIANT CONTROL” IN THE CONTEXT OF HYSTERIA

“In his The True Value of Oppositions in Life and Art and elsewhere Mondrian argued in favour of trying to reconcile a series of binary oppositions such as good and evil through painting: generally in life we readily perceive oppositions as particular forms, … Continue reading

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THOSE MODERN FEELINGS: ITS A MATTER OF PLUMBING

“It must be realized that what these artists, Jean Arp, Kandinsky, Klee, Mondrian etc., were concerned with was something far greater than a problem of form and distinction between “concrete” and abstract,” figurative and non-figurative. Their goal was the center … Continue reading

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ECSTASY OF GEOMETRY: READING BETWEEN THE LINES

What was the nature of the quest that moved the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) to abandon the representation of nature in favor of an art of pure abstraction? What, exactly, did Mondrian believe that he had achieved? In any … Continue reading

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MONDRIAN:INCONVENIENT PARADOXES & STRATEGIES OF CONCEALMENT

“As time progressed, however, so did the indoctrination as to the new role of art. In the established media journals we were told by critics such as Clement Greenberg and Leo Steinberg, that Art “challenges previously held assumptions,” and that … Continue reading

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