How to Explain Art Movements with Matches

In 1958, Richard Paul Lohse, a painter and designer in mid-career, emptied a box of matches onto a table and exclaimed, ‘Abstract Expressionism!’ – meaning Jackson Pollock – then rearranged the matches in a perfect rectangular pattern to the approving shout of ‘Mondrian!’

• Excerpt from Swiss Graphic Design by Richard Hollis

Posted by Simon on May 16th 2009 in

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