Today those who live on the American coasts think of the Midwest as “Flyover Country,” but it was here in the very middle of the map in a suburb just outside of Chicago that an architect, early in his career, revolutionized domestic architecture. The name of the...
In his excellent book, De Stijl and Dutch Modernism, Michael White explained the struggle Mondrian went through during the War years. “What we think of as the first properly Neo-plastic painting were not made until after Mondrian returned to Paris in 1919. The war...
Trapped in Holland, Piet Mondrian joined an artist’s colony in Laren where he joined forces with painter Bart van der Leck and the leader of the De Stijl movement, Theo van Doesburg. Van Doesburg was an old friend who had praised Mondrian’s 1915 almost abstract work,...
During the Great War, Holland, a territory also called “The Netherlands,” was neural. Like Belgium, its neutrality was historic. but a principled or pragmatic stance on the part of a small weak nation was actually in the hands of the stronger nations that would use...
Like many artists of the Parisian avant-garde, Delaunay was disrupted by the sudden eruption of hostilities that totally changed the art world. Delaunay decided to not serve in the military and went to a neutral nation, Spain. For four years, he and Sonia...
