Composition in Brown and Gray by Piet Mondrian
中文翻译：jasmine
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英文稿：
Leah: I'm in the museum's conservation studio
with Piet Mondrian's "Composition in Brown and Grey" from 1913.
It was done while he was in Paris, and in 1913
he showed a group of related works
in the Salond des Independant,
one of the big alternative exhibitions
that was held in Paris.
His work was noticed by the poet and critic,
[Guillermo Poloner], who said these were among
the most celebrated pictures in the exhibition,
and called them a form of very abstract cubism.
Mondrian was preoccupied with Picasso's work
and his cubist practice and you see references
to it in his writing of this time;
and he's very careful to say
that he's very influenced by him,
but at the same time he didn't think
Picasso went far enough on the road to abstraction.
Mondrian decides that his project is a following up
the implications of what Picasso does.
He begins to take the [scaffetoling] that emerges
in cubism, and to regularize it as a grid.
He works from his sketchbook images
of the motif of trees, and the branches
of the trees are systematized here
along here the horizontal and vertical axis;
they even begin to look a bit like architecture.
The horizontal and vertical become
the common vocabulary,
hen you see a whole variety of brush strokes.
He's exploring the relationship
between center and peripheral,
and this is a real problem for this
pioneering generation of abstract artists;
once objects are no longer
the primary thing in a work of art,
how do you figure out how to end a picture?
How do you decide what's foreground?
How do you decide what's background?
Here he is working very much
on the edges of the picture
to suggest what happens when you move
away from the structuring composition.
Piet Mondrian sent this picture from Paris,
and a group of others, back to the Netherlands
for his first one-man exhibition,
and then he traveled to The Hague a few weeks later,
but by that time World War I had broken out
and he was unable to return to Paris.
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