![]() Perhaps that visual motif would be obvious only to people who professionally obsess over Mondrian’s path from the early naturalistic paintings to his late abstract works, but the curator also found a photograph of Mondrian’s studio published in the June 1944 issue of Town and Country magazine. She observed that the thicker lines in the red, blue, and yellow grid - created by the application of adhesive tape - should mirror that of another similar piece, “New York City,” currently in the collection of Paris’s Centre Pompidou. In real life, curator Susanne Meyer-Büser discovered the work’s incorrect orientation during her research on Mondrian’s evolving aesthetic principles for the Kunstsammlung NRW’s upcoming retrospective on the artist. In the end, Binky the “art expert” was right.Īrthur questioned how to correctly display a Mondrian painting over 25 years ago /Bbzv2LrFuY- Bryan Hilley October 28, 2022 His friends Arthur and Buster don’t really get what he sees, but Binky goes on to question the painting’s orientation in the museum’s exhibition catalogue as well and suggests putting together a report. ![]() In “ Binky Barnes, Art Expert,” Arthur and his classmates go on a field trip to the Elwood City Art Museum, where Binky notices that a geometric painting in the style of Mondrian is hanging incorrectly. We’re all familiar with the tired trope that “my kid could paint that” - but a recent revelation over a Piet Mondrian painting that hung upside-down for decades has introduced the novel maxim that “my kid’s TV show could do a better job.” The fact that Mondrian’s “New York City I” (1941) has been displayed incorrectly at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and its current home at the German Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW) is a hilarious indictment of modern art in its own right, but it’s made even better by the fact that a similar scenario played out in a 1997 episode of the PBS children’s cartoon Arthur.
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