More Mondrian

So in the past few days I have been trying to find more inspiring Piet pieces (which tends to be quite easy due to the fact that most of his stuff looks the same) and came across something I was not expecting. The picture at the right depicts something OTHER than straight lines with the occasional primary color associated with it. The painting of a "gray tree" (as it's so adeptly called) was something unlike anything I had previously seen by Mondrian and so I took a closer look at it. Not once not twice but numerous times, something in his brief brush strokes and long curved branches caught my eye in just the right position. This usage of, almost depressing, shades of black is unlike anything else in his main genre and period of work.

One thing that comes to my mind is how much it looks careless. I found this the most interesting thing of the piece especially in comparisson to his other works, it is like night and day. In the "classical" Mondrian pieces, he takes maticulous care of his lines and boxes and yet in this painting it seems that his background work was almost laxidasical and careless and yet it is one of his most famous pieces. This stark contrast sparked my interest in this artist, where it is extremely clear that there is more than meets the eye.

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