Piet Mondrian
April 7th, 2006,I went to the Art Institute the other day and found myself actually enjoying the Piet Mondrian abstracts.
I found this bio on him and now I think he might be my personal hero.
As Mondrian was probably incapable of irony, the tulip was unlikely to be a wry joke about his having had to produce flowerpieces between 1922 and 1925 when he no longer wanted to because there were no buyers for his abstracts. It could, of course, have been a revenge for the agony a compromise of that sort must have cost him. More likely, it was simply a part of the general revulsion against green and growth which made him, when seated at a table beside a window through which trees were visible to him, persuade someone to change places.