Art: The Greek’s Way

The Greeks Way

SOME artists are known to the public chiefly as caricatures of themselves. Mondrian is one example. The fact that Mondrian made ravishing pictures of flowers and haunting landscapes is overshadowed by our association of the name “Mondrian” with the image of a certain type of pared-down geometrical abstraction in primary colors.

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Roger Kimball

Mr. Kimball is publisher of Encounter Books, and co-editor and publisher of The New Criterion.

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The Greeks Way

SOME artists are known to the public chiefly as caricatures of themselves. Mondrian is one example. The fact that Mondrian made ravishing pictures of flowers and haunting landscapes is overshadowed by our association of the name “Mondrian” with the image of a certain type of pared-down geometrical abstraction in primary colors.