Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from these two factors, all is unified in one unique beauty.

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About Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian was a 19th-century Dutch painter. Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, known after 1911 as Piet Mondrian, was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He was one of the pioneers of 20th-century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it
  • Beauty — Appreciating aesthetics, grace, and the sublime

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