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Erisava Staff Aug 9

The Red Tree by Piet Mondrian, 1909

The Red Tree

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This started off a run of tree paintings he kept at for years — each one taking a bit more out, according to Wikipedia, until the trees eventually turned into straight lines and blocks and stopped being trees at all.

Erisava: All that blue with the red cutting through it — I'd hang this without thinking.

Erisava Staff Jul 24

Tableau I by Piet Mondrian, 1921

Tableau I

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I couldn't dig up much on this specific one — Mondrian made dozens of these grid paintings in the early 1920s, and I can't find what set this particular one apart from the rest.

Erisava: Looks easy to do, and hard to come up with.

Erisava Staff Jul 22

Gray Tree by Piet Mondrian, 1911

Gray Tree

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One of a run of tree paintings he made over a few years, each one supposedly a little further from looking like a tree than the one before. That run is what ends up at the black lines and flat colour blocks he's known for now.

Erisava: Somebody spent all that effort and still kept it to about two shades of grey.