{"id":12280,"date":"2022-11-28T16:12:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T23:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12280"},"modified":"2022-12-02T16:15:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T23:15:01","slug":"mondrian-piet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/11\/28\/mondrian-piet\/","title":{"rendered":"Mondrian Piet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2022\/10\/a-piet-mondrian-painting-has-been-hanging-upside-down-for-more-than-75-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from OBSERVER<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Piet Mondrian Painting Has Been Hanging Upside Down for More Than 75 Years<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The work, first exhibited at New York&#8217;s MoMA, might have been accidentally mislabeled or turned over in a crate.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/author\/alexandra-tremayne-pengelly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/GettyImages-78411649.jpg?quality=80&amp;strip\" alt=\"Two men look at the Mondrian painting, made up of red, yellow and blue lines of tape\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The artwork in question, wrong side up.\u00a0HENNING KAISER\/DDP\/AFP via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An abstract art piece from Dutch painter Piet Mondrian has mistakenly been hanging upside down for the past 77 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mondrian\u2019s 1941\u00a0<em>New York City 1,\u00a0<\/em>consisting of multi-colored taped lines, has been held at Germany\u2019s Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen\u2019s art collection since 1980. It was first exhibited at New York\u2019s Museum of Modern Art in 1945.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, a press conference for the Kunstsammlung\u2019s new Mondrian exhibition included the surprising revelation that\u00a0<em>New York City 1<\/em>\u00a0was displayed incorrectly by both institutions, as\u00a0reported by German publication\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monopol-magazin.de\/mondrian-bild-haengt-seit-jahrzehnten-auf-dem-kopf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Monopol<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A photograph taken of Mondrian\u2019s studio shortly after his death in 1944 pictured the artwork oriented opposite of how it has ben exhibited, said curator Susanne Meyer-Buser, who researched the museums\u2019s upcoming Mondrian show. The placement of tape on the unsigned painting also indicates the piece was hung incorrectly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2022\/10\/a-piet-mondrian-painting-has-been-hanging-upside-down-for-more-than-75-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at OBSERVER<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from OBSERVER A Piet Mondrian Painting Has Been Hanging Upside Down for More Than 75 Years The work, first exhibited at New York&#8217;s MoMA, might have been accidentally mislabeled or turned over in a crate. By\u00a0Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly An abstract art piece from Dutch painter Piet Mondrian has mistakenly been hanging upside down for the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}