Happy Birthday Miss Gerhard

Messing around with a new font and quickly felt the need to give it a Piet Mondrian flare. I thought, wouldn't it be funny if his birthday was today. Turns out, he died 76 years ago tomorrow. Close enough, I suppose.

This in turn, made me think of my Art History lessons. While my high school didn't offer Art History, I was in a small advanced oil painting class with about five others. Coincidentally, each of us in that class were all serious about furthering our college studies in the arts, so while we painted, our art teacher, Jane Gerhard, took it upon herself to feed us information about art history. This was not in the syllabus, but we were sponges to it. I remember it clearly.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. ~P. Mondrian

Huh. Getting ready to post this, and just remembered, while it's not Mondrian's birthday, guess who's birthday it is today? Happy Birthday Miss Gerhard! (So strange.)

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