Tag Archives: Piet Mondrian

The 90º Shift from Nature to Culture

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

A shift of such magnitude does not come overnight, nor as the feat of one artist alone. Portents and antecedents become increasingly recognizable in retrospect — Monet’s Nymphéas or Mondrian’s transmutation of sea and sky into signs plus and minus. … Continue reading →

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From “Pasted-Paper Revolution” to “Collage”

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

The key to understanding Greenberg’s argument about cubism and collage is to center on one or two fundamental concepts – medium specificity and dialectical development. By medium specificity we mean that each artistic medium, the physical material out of which … Continue reading →

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A Materialist Reading of High-Modernist Spirituality

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

A great deal of purism is the translation of an extreme solicitude, an anxiousness as to the fate of art, a concern for its identity. We must respect this. When the purist insists upon excluding “literature” and subject matter from … Continue reading →

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