The trailblazing Wassily Kandinsky and the bulletproof masters of abstraction, Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, doubled, tortuously, as theorists.

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Art-historical references to such abstract painters as Franz Kline, Kasimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian and Mark Rothko pass through the stage pictures.

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In January, three art works -- including a painting by Pablo Picasso and another by Piet Mondrian -- were stolen from the National Gallery in Athens.

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Greek police say the raider, or raiders, also made off with Piet Mondrian's "Landscape with a mill, " and a pen-and-ink sketch of San Diego de Alcala in ecstasy by Renaissance artist Guglielmo Caccia.

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Eggeling's "Symphonie Diagonale" from 1924 is a filigree of lines, while Richter's (except for a brief diagonal figure) maintains horizontality, more in keeping with the principles articulated by Piet Mondrian and (later) Josef Albers.

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