{"id":1718272,"date":"2022-10-31T11:07:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T15:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1718272"},"modified":"2022-10-31T11:07:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T15:07:59","slug":"modernist-mondrian-painting-has-been-hanging-upside-down-for-75-years-museum-discovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/modernist-mondrian-painting-has-been-hanging-upside-down-for-75-years-museum-discovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Modernist Mondrian Painting Has Been Hanging Upside Down For 75 Years, Museum Discovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmodernist-mondrian-painting-has-been-hanging-upside-down-for-75-years-museum-discovers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1718272&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/arts\">modernist<\/a> painting by Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down for more than seven decades, museum curators have discovered.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/painting\">painting<\/a> is called \u201cNew York City I\u201d and combines geometric shapes with a primary color palette, which the Dutch artist is known for. Mondrian made several paintings as part of the \u201cNew York\u201d series in the early 1940s after moving there from his native country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/germany\">German<\/a>-based gallery Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in D\u00fcsseldorf has been exhibiting the work since 1980. All along even before it was acquired by its current home gallery, the colorful modernist painting was shown with the thicker cluster of overlapping lines toward the bottom of the work, but a photo of the artist\u2019s studio shows \u201cNew York City I\u201d hanging the opposite way, with the line cluster at the top.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe density of the strips along the top edge lends the work a resemblance to its close relative \u2018New York City,\u2019 in which the zone of greatest density is also located at the top edge,\u201d the museum catalog says, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/style\/article\/piet-mondrian-painting-upside-down-trnd\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>. \u201cThe blue strips along the left, top, and lower edges are now positioned in exactly the same places.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn initial visual inspection confirmed the suspicion that by turning the canvas upside down, the adhesive strips on the upper edge are aligned with the edge of the picture, whereas those at the lower edge peter out, with pieces missing here and there,\u201d the explanation continues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAssuming that Mondrian began by attaching the strips at the top, and, following the principle of gravity, unrolled them downward to attach them at the bottom of the canvas, then the painting has indeed been hanging upside down ever since it was first exhibited in 1945.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, no one is sure which way the Dutch artist intended for the painting to hang, despite the photo they found. He died in 1944 at the age of 71.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMondrian repeatedly turned the picture around while he was working on it, in which case there would be no right or wrong orientation,\u201d the catalog notes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis may be the truly revolutionary feature of New York City 1: the fact that it can be read in any direction, like the street map of a big city, in an attitude of open-mindedness, moving every way at once, like couples dancing the boogie-woogie,\u201d the description continues.<\/p>\n<p>Museum curator Susanne Meyer-B\u00fcser said at a press conference last week that they aren\u2019t planning to change the way the work is exhibited. \u201cTurning it may risk damaging it \u2014 and the orientation confusion is now a unique part of the history of the object,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A modernist painting by Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down for more than seven decades, museum curators have discovered. The painting is called \u201cNew York City I\u201d and combines geometric shapes with a primary color palette, which the Dutch artist is known for. 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