"For the first time a subject is present, not by virtue of its absence, but actually present, though its appearance is torn away, and only the structure bared. The Modern City! Precise, rectangular, squared, whether seen from above, below, or on the side; bright lights and sterilized life; Broadway, whites and blacks; and boogie-woogie; the underground music of the at once resigned and rebellious.. .Mondrian has left his white paradise, and entered the world. [1942, on the late painting Broadway Boogie Woogie of Piet Mondrian ]"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Jews from the United StatesPrintmakersImmigrants to the United StatesPainters from the United StatesPeople from Latvia
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Related Quotes
"The progression of a painter’s work, as it travels in time from point to point, will be toward clarity: toward the el…"
"The passions are a kind of thirst, inexorable and intense, for certain feelings or felt states. To find or invent 'ob…"
"For me, Still's pictorial dramas are an extension of the Greek Persephone myth. As he himself has expressed it, his p…"
"It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. …"
"If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon …"
"We are concerned with similar states of consciousness and relationship to the world.. .If previous abstractions paral…"
"The aesthetic is the sine qua none for art: if a work is not aesthetic, it is not art by definition.. .We feel throug…"
"I do not believe that there was ever a question of being abstract or representational. It is really a matter of endin…"
"The progression of a painter's work, as it travels in time from point to point, will be toward clarity: toward the el…"
"The activity of the artist makes him less socially conditioned and more humans. It is then that he is disposed to rev…"