Sunday, October 01, 2017

"It Is Such a Strong Image, It's So Hard to Resist It"

"In the house (now a museum) where Mondrian grew up, in the Dutch town of Amersfoort, they've put together a sound and light show on what happened to Mondrian's work when he first went to New York in 1940, fleeing the Nazis who considered his art degenerate.
"In the New World, the vibrancy and the music took him further down the road he was already on. Those colors and those shapes took new form, and became what is considered his masterpiece. He called it 'Victory Boogie Woogie.'"

Mark Phillips at CBS Sunday Morning visits the Netherlands for a retrospective of Piet Mondrian's art.

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