Everyone knows Piet Mondriaan, the painter who divided the world into red, white, blue and yellow planes between straight black lines. But who knows that he was a great music lover, who danced with pleasure and saw it as his duty as an artist to strive for balance and harmony in the arts, as a blueprint for a better world? Until his dying day, Mondriaan searched for a way to bring light into the increasing darkness in the world and he should be praised for that to this day.” With an extensive essay ‘Aux hommes futurs – Mondriaan’s vision of art and a better world’ by Wietse Coppes, curator of the RKD, the Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague.
About Erik de Graaf
Erik de Graaf (Vlaardingen, 1961) has been drawing since he could hold a pencil. However, it took another 40 years before he made his debut as a comic strip author.
From 2003 onwards, three collections of stories, loosely based on his youth, were published in quick succession: Verbleekte Herinneringen, Gekleurd Geheugen and Gevonden Verleden. De Graaf then made a diptych with Scherven en Littekens about a group of young friends during the Second World War. These publications were also published in French by Dupuis under the titles Éclats and Cicatrices.
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