Nobyembre 2, 2024

"Mondrian didn’t believe in ice cubes because cold food was bad for the health. He stood ramrod straight..."

"... and never had a hair out of place, refusing to take off his jacket in company even on hot nights. He was given to incomprehensible monologues and Garbo-like utterances such as 'You don’t seem to understand that I want to be alone.'... He once entered a room, wrinkled his nose, and commented to his host, 'It smells old in here.' Mondrian was known for planting bizarre, forceful and one-sided kisses, some lasting 30 minutes, on women. Yet he mostly felt women got in men’s way; the feminine was 'hostile to the spirit.' He once remarked, 'Every bit of semen expended is a masterpiece lost.'"

Writes Dwight Garner, in "Piet Mondrian: An Orderly Painter, a Deeply Eccentric Man/A new biography of one of the quintessential artists of the 20th century" (NYT).

20 komento:

n.n ayon kay ...

Transgender with transsocial elements of dysfunction and thermal reductive phobia albeit with circumstantial cause.

Dave Begley ayon kay ...

If this guy was quintessential, how come I’d never heard of him until just now?

Dave Begley ayon kay ...

I Googled him. He painted colored squares. Looks like he worked for Frank Wright.

Kate ayon kay ...

If he didn't use ice cubes, he obviously didn't know how to drink a proper glass of whiskey.

MrsX ayon kay ...

I’m ambivalent about Mondrian’s art but the review was enjoyable. A sample “Mondrian lived like an ambassador from the kingdom of ridiculous notions.” And now I don’t have to read the book.

Ice Nine ayon kay ...

Because you didn't ever study art, even a little bit, perhaps? Never been a major modern art museum, maybe? I can't otherwise answer your question because Mondrian is impossible to miss in either of those circumstances.

Marcus Bressler ayon kay ...

Sounds like a perv who sexually assaults women with kisses that last that long. I didn’t read the article. Did any of the women consent? Was consent asked? Heh.

Ampersand ayon kay ...

On balance, the hunger for social desirability is a good and necessary thing. It's interesting to see someone who manages to survive without it.

I've seen people who seem to thrive without that hunger in positions of power in the entertainment industry. They simply hire publicists who deliver social desirability to them as if it were groceries.

Jupiter ayon kay ...

Did he ejaculate little multi-colored cubes? With black edges?

tcrosse ayon kay ...

You can drink whiskey with ice if you like, but not whisky.

Dave Begley ayon kay ...

I recognized his work, but not his name. Not that great.

Eric the Fruit Bat ayon kay ...

Piet Mondrian is my new hero because I've never been able to go longer than seven minutes in the bizarre, forceful and one-sided kiss department.

Roadkill711 ayon kay ...

"As Balzac said, 'there goes another novel'"

Jerry ayon kay ...

There's some things we were not meant to know.

Mikey NTH ayon kay ...

Sounds like a real nut case.

tcrosse ayon kay ...

Not unusual in the art world.

William ayon kay ...

I read the article. He makes Philip Larkin sound like a party animal. I'd be interested in learning more about the women who submitted to half hour kisses. How did he hook up with such women before the internet? It's like furries. How would you ever hope to meet another furry before the internet?

Saint Croix ayon kay ...

Every bit of semen expended is a masterpiece lost.

ha ha ha ha ha

that just cracks me up

jack off on the painting, jack!

then paint the drops

you could have been Pollock before Pollock was Pollock!

too damn rigid

"Artist man keeps his semen on the inside"

Christy ayon kay ...

Autistic, you think?

Aggie ayon kay ...

He could no longer stand by and see the international Communist artistic conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily pigments.

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