“The moment always dictates in my work. Everybody can look, but they don’t necessarily see. I see a situation and I know it’s right.”
~ André Kertész
(1894-1985)
Andre had been living for less than a year in Paris, where he had moved from Hungary to pursue his artistic career, when he first met the great Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. He had integrated himself into the vibrant, flourishing artistic milieu that was Paris in the 1920s. Why is this, on the surface, simple image still so powerful almost 100 years after it was first taken? I think it is because we live in such a rushed, overstimulated world that the pure geometric forms seduce us, and we are calmed by its beauty and stillness.
