The upside-down Mondrian debacle gets even funnier.
Mondrian, a founder of the De Stijl art group, is regarded as one of the 20th century's great pioneers of abstract minimalism and expressionism. Kunstsammlung NRW describes New York City I as"a lively, dynamic rhythm of coloured, red, blue and yellow stripes [which] took the place of a radically reduced pictorial language."
That kind of description is probably part of the reason many detractors of modern art are taking delight in the discovery that the piece has been upside down all along. If a gallery can't make enough sense out of modern art to know which way it's supposed to go, how can the rest of us? But most amusingly, people have pointed out that a children's television series predicted the mistake years ago.
"Wasn't this an episode of Arthur?" is a question being asked by many on Twitter. And indeed it was. In 'Binky Barnes, Art Expert' – the first half of a 1997 episode of Kathy Waugh's animated series for PBS – nobody believes Blinky when he insists that a Mondrian-like painting is hung sideways. He finally proves his case, receiving acclaim both at school and from the media.
Arthur fans are delighted to discover that Blinky was right all along, but they can't believe the art world didn't pay attention."There was literally an Arthur episode about this. Why didn't everyone check their paintings after that?" one person asked. Arthur questioned how to correctly display a Mondrian painting over 25 years ago https://t.co/8ZUuNNrsFB pic.twitter.com/Bbzv2LrFuYThe museum isn't going to correct the mistake, however. It fears the work of art will disintegrate if they try to move it. Someone commenting on the museum'sthinks a solution that might appear to Mondrian himself would be to turn the label upside down instead.
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