ART 234 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Piet Mondrian, Theosophy, Centrifugal Force
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Dutch and from a calvinist house hold: while the dutch can be crazy they really do have a sense of regularity and order. Founded de stijl: this is the solution, this is the way to go: a utopian outlook, so narrow. 1911-1914 in paris and witnessed the breakthroughs of cubism. 1914-1917 he was in holland and trapped there by the war. Most of his career was spent in the netherlands. Would reduce the world to horizontals and verticals: horizontal is restful contemplative part, and stasis and death, the verticality is life, activity, alertness, the intersection between those two. Looking for a generic approach where titles don"t matter. Strong symbolist movements in the netherlands int he 19th century. He takes a recognizable object and lifts it out of reality to the point where it has symbolic intent. Still life of ginger pot 1911, the hague.
