The Yale University Art Gallery presents
John Walsh, John Walsh Lecture and Education Fund:
“Looking at Mondrian: Mondrian on the Rivers and in the Dunes.”
An abstract painting of a cloudy sky over water, seen from shore. The shore consists of only a few strokes of red and blue at the bottom of the image. The water is bluish purple in color, with hints of green and yellow near the shore. The same bluish purple occupies the lower and middle sky, so that the water and sky are distinguishable only by a horizon line. A large, goldish-yellow form fills much of the upper sky.
In the first lecture of this four-part series, John Walsh traces Mondrian’s early development and his experiments, well into his thirties, with pictorial innovations that reached him from France. He describes Mondrian’s absorption of ideas from Theosophy concerning the human spirit, through which he came to understand abstraction to be the true art of the future.
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