With acknowledgement to: anthroposophie.net
Linking up with MeetingTheBar, hosted by Victoria over at dVerse - it’s all about balance …
Homage to Mondrian
Avant-garde minimalist, stunning,
Piet Mondrian made the running,
Black, white, opposing pairs,
Primary colours – oblongs, squares.
Strict Dutch Calvinist, he did his duty,
Yet used intuition re basic forms of beauty,
A Utopian ideal, of
Order, harmony, rhythm,
His paintings neat, neoplasticism,
Pure abstract control freak,
His technique,
“… more or less Cubist
… more or less pictorial”
Symmetry avoided. A memorial:
Aesthetic balance through opposition,
Driven to simplify, a man with a mission.
Polly Robinson © 2012
Nederlands: Anoniem. Piet Mondriaan. 1899. Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
