Frame of the Week

• Piet Mondrian was a Dutch artist who was a key figure in the development of abstract art.

• Mondrian's artistic philosophy was based on the idea of expressing universal harmony through simplified forms and colors. He believed that by reducing the elements of art to their essential forms, he could create a sense of balance, order, and spiritual harmony.

• The use of straight lines and primary colors in his compositions was intended to represent the fundamental principles of nature and the underlying structure of reality.

Fame of the Week

• This vibrant Japanese woodblock print from the Taisho period, the early 20th century, was recently sold at a Sotheby’s auction for just over ￡20,000 GBP.

• A woman makes her way through a heavy snow blizzard, her umbrella semi-collapsed in the strong wind. Behind her is the Zojoji Buddhist temple in central Tokyo and in the foreground an overhanging pine tree, it’s branches laden with snow.

• For more info on the auction, click here!

Find of the Week

• Praz-Delavallade Los Angeles is pleased to present High Noon Chorus, a solo exhibition by Amelia Baxter, opening on May 20th at 6:00pm.

• If you repeat a word over and over it begins to lose its meaning, it becomes pure sound. This is the purpose of chanting. Pattern expands and contracts, like breath, unfolding in the mind’s eye— a stage that allows for fantasy and evinces the infinite.

• As Amelia Baxter explains, "I create patterns because I want to repeat a form over and over again until it loses meaning and I am catapulted into what lies beyond meaning into what simply is; rhythms and pulses."

• From praz-delavallade.com