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04-24-14, 03:28 PM

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A Classic Look

Piet Mondrian, Composition avec rouge, noir, bleu et jaune, 1928

(Landon Coast to Coast: Mondrian and a Million Dollar View)

Sometimes the old ways are best…

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04-24-14, 03:46 PM

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my black/red motos are more rothko.

04-24-14, 03:54 PM

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Agree - I like yours best.

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04-24-14, 04:36 PM

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I like the chair. So much so that I have one.

04-24-14, 04:36 PM

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^Nice Mondrian chair!

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Agree - I like yours best.

Thanks, Aaron!

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my black/red motos are more rothko.

I see it!

Rothko, Four Darks in Red.

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04-24-14, 05:12 PM

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^ ha.

if you're ever in houston, spend a day at the rothko chapel, menil, and mfah. you won't regret it.

04-24-14, 05:16 PM

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Rietveld, not Mondrian.

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^Nice Mondrian chair!

04-24-14, 05:24 PM

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Ce n'ets pas mal.

04-24-14, 09:56 PM

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"Mondrian" style decals also used for years on Jack Taylor bikes.

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04-24-14, 10:43 PM

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For some reason this Volvo with it's mostly long horizontal rectangles on it's body seems to give me more of a "Usonian" feel,.....instead of "Mondrian"......

04-25-14, 08:44 AM

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04-25-14, 08:52 AM

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Waiting for the E.L. Kirchner model.

04-25-14, 09:11 AM

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For some reason this Volvo with it's mostly long horizontal rectangles on it's body seems to give me more of a "Usonian" feel,.....instead of "Mondrian"......

Huh! It struck me as more Hundertvasser.

04-25-14, 09:42 AM

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pictured: Mondriaan, 'Bama, sycophants.

04-25-14, 11:30 AM

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Brilliant thread, gang. My favorite of recent history.

04-25-14, 11:39 AM

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Lovely.

04-25-14, 11:59 AM

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Huh! It struck me as more Hundertvasser.

Hundertvasser??......Nahhh, cause I highly suspect that he actually had a secret hate of straight edged drawing implements.....

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04-25-14, 03:43 PM

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Victory Boogie Woogie, 1944. Unfinished. An extension of the line of development explored in Broadway Boogie Woogie painted in 1943. The title a reference to the Allied victory in Europe.