THE ATLAS OF THE UNPAINTABLE
Piet Mondrian
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Joined the Theosophical Society in 1909 and stayed a member for the rest of his life. The grids are the end of a road that began with theosophical diagrams of ascent.
The horizontal and the vertical, held apart and never allowed to become a picture of anything — this is the second-commandment solution arrived at by a Dutch Calvinist through Blavatsky. The mature work looks like the most secular painting ever made and is the most doctrinal.
The horizontal and the vertical, held apart and never allowed to become a picture of anything — this is the second-commandment solution arrived at by a Dutch Calvinist through Blavatsky. The mature work looks like the most secular painting ever made and is the most doctrinal.
rhymes with
sephirahgevurah
whyGevurah is restriction. He removed the diagonal, the curve, and finally the colour that was not primary.
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mondrian · theosophy · de stijl · grid · neoplasticism · 1909 · abstraction
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Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1930Wikimedia Commons · public domain
Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942–43Wikimedia Commons · public domain
Victory Boogie Woogie, 1944 — unfinished at his deathWikimedia Commons · public domain▤ read
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