(January 7, 2015 at 2:07 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: It seems fairly pleasing as a piece but I rather think that give me a ruler and some paint and I could come up with something similar in an afternoon.
That's my whole point. The technicality involved is extremely simple, but Mondrian managed to make himself a name with it. It met the audience's approval by being provocative and new.
And personally I rather like it.