Ep. 10 - Piet Mondrian's "Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue" (1927)

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🗓️ 25 October 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Think abstraction is totally inaccessible? Pull up a chair. See the image: http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2016/10/6/episode-10-piet-mondrians-composition-with-red-yellow-and-blue-1927 Music used: The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" The Blue Dot Sessions, "The Provisions", "A Certain Lightness", "A Rush of Clear Water", "Brass Buttons" Lee Rosevere, "Puzzle Pieces" Tamar Avishai, "Grid (after Sol LeWitt's Drawing Series)"

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0:59.8	well it's mostly white and there's squares.
1:10.0	I'm looking at a geometrical abstract painting which is white but with
1:20.0	pieces of color. The painting has one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine
1:26.7	squares and rectangles, and some of the squares have color and some don't.
1:33.2	Small red, small yellow and a larger blue square.
1:37.9	The white makes me look, even though most of it is white with black lines. It's making me look for the red, the yellow, and the blue.
1:48.0	Well, it's very flat. There's no gradients of colors.
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