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| | Piet Mondrian Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | The lines extend all the way to the edges of the canvas, almost giving the impression that the painting is a fragment of a larger work. |
 | | Although one is hampered by the glass protecting the painting, and by the toll that age and handling have obviously taken on the canvas, a close examination of this painting begins to reveal something of the artist’s method. |
 | | In painting, however, the lines are absorbed by the color planes; but the limitation of the planes show themselves as lines and conserve their great value.” In these final works, the forms have indeed usurped the role of the lines, opening another new door for Mondrian’s development as an abstractionist. |
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