<story><title>Mondrian painting has been hanging upside down for 75 years</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/oct/28/mondrian-painting-has-been-hanging-upside-down-for-75-years</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dehrmann</author><text>My gripe with abstract art is a lot of artists settle on one gimmick. Mondrian? Space subdivided by lines. Pollock? Paint drips. It&amp;#x27;s the same as the Youtuber criticism: they have two years of ideas, then try to make a career out of it.</text></item><item><author>ThePadawan</author><text>When I was in high school AV, one of the favorite projects we were involved in was a short doc&amp;#x2F;trailer for an abstract exhibit in a local museum.&lt;p&gt;We interviewed several people. The artistic director. Some people from our school who were painting a Sol LeWitt performance piece on the wall.&lt;p&gt;All in all pretty generic stuff. People describing what abstract art meant to them, how people could interact with it.&lt;p&gt;And then we interviewed the janitor (I was behind the camera observing).&lt;p&gt;He talked about how he hung paintings.&lt;p&gt;How there is a standard wire they put on the back of frames to ensure it was easy to hang frames level.&lt;p&gt;What the typical height of a hung artwork was. Based on how tall the average visitor was, and from how far away they would observe the painting.&lt;p&gt;It was the absolute highlight of that trailer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jnwatson</author><text>By pure coincidence, I just visited Kunstmuseum today in The Hague that has a large Mandria(a)n exhibit, so the following is fresh on the mind.&lt;p&gt;It took Mandria(a)n 30 years of professional painting to arrive at his spaces and lines.  He was already in his 50s by that time, and it ended up being enormously popular and influential.&lt;p&gt;Artists have to eat too. Why fix something that isn&amp;#x27;t broken?&lt;p&gt;At the same museum they had a gallery of Josef Albers.  He painted concentric squares of different colors for the last 26 years of his life.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mondrian painting has been hanging upside down for 75 years</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/oct/28/mondrian-painting-has-been-hanging-upside-down-for-75-years</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dehrmann</author><text>My gripe with abstract art is a lot of artists settle on one gimmick. Mondrian? Space subdivided by lines. Pollock? Paint drips. It&amp;#x27;s the same as the Youtuber criticism: they have two years of ideas, then try to make a career out of it.</text></item><item><author>ThePadawan</author><text>When I was in high school AV, one of the favorite projects we were involved in was a short doc&amp;#x2F;trailer for an abstract exhibit in a local museum.&lt;p&gt;We interviewed several people. The artistic director. Some people from our school who were painting a Sol LeWitt performance piece on the wall.&lt;p&gt;All in all pretty generic stuff. People describing what abstract art meant to them, how people could interact with it.&lt;p&gt;And then we interviewed the janitor (I was behind the camera observing).&lt;p&gt;He talked about how he hung paintings.&lt;p&gt;How there is a standard wire they put on the back of frames to ensure it was easy to hang frames level.&lt;p&gt;What the typical height of a hung artwork was. Based on how tall the average visitor was, and from how far away they would observe the painting.&lt;p&gt;It was the absolute highlight of that trailer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>renewiltord</author><text>Perhaps it&amp;#x27;s just hard to come up with more.&lt;p&gt;But you do see the same effect on Twitter. Guy will be normal, then get popular for one tweet, and then spend the rest of his life trying to pander to that audience.</text></comment>