Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
In the 1910s and 1920s, abstraction broke the oldest rule in painting: mimesis, the duty to represent the visible world. A painting is no longer a window; it is an object in its own right.
Two parallel quests: Wassily Kandinsky translated the soul into free forms, while Piet Mondrian looked for the laws of the universe in pure geometry.
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- 2Kandinsky: painting the way you compose music
- 3Mondrian: balance in straight lines
- 4The Bauhaus: abstraction in daily life
- 5A legacy all around us
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary13 terms explained in a tap.
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