By pure coincidence, I just visited Kunstmuseum today in The Hague that has a large Mandria(a)n exhibit, so the following is fresh on the mind. It took Mandria

By pure coincidence, I just visited Kunstmuseum today in The Hague that has a large Mandria(a)n exhibit, so the following is fresh on the mind. It took Mandria(a)n 30 years of professional painting to arrive at his spaces and lines. He was already in his 50s by that time, and it ended up being enormously popular and influential. Artists have to eat too. Why fix something that isn't broken? At the same museum they had a gallery of Josef Albers. He painted concentric squares of different colors for the last 26 years of his life.