Finished listening to "The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga" by Edward Rutherfurd yesterday on abridged audiobook. Brad and Emilie came over on Sunday night to visit and discuss our recent noveling experience, in addition to bagging on various aspects of geocaching. Last night, we watched "The Medallion" (2004; Jackie Chan) on VHS.

Finished reading/skimming "Piet Mondrian: 1872-1944" by Yve-Alain Bois, Joop Joosten, Angelica Zander Rudenstine, and Hans Janssen today. I was doing a thorough reading at first, carefully cross-referencing the chronology with the art catalogue and it's additional texts, but ran out of time since I felt the library was bearing down on me since I've already renewed the book twice (thrice?). I had already returned the Michel Seuphor book since I didn't have time to read both at once.

It was interesting to me that Mondrian's writings in De Stijl magazine discussed not only art (specifically neo-plasticism), but also music, architecture, and dance. It was also interesting to me the separation he made mentally between his "day job" (painting naturalistic flowers) and his 'real' artwork (neo-plasticism). It was also interesting to note his 'humble' beginnings with naturalism, and then his evolution through cubism and on to his final abstract works.

Speaking of Mondrian, I felt smugly superior for about 3 seconds the other day while watching Jeopardy, and a question came up about what shape a 'lozenge' is, and none of the three contestants knew the answer, but I did because of my recent Mondrian reading. (It's a diamond shape - many of Mondrian's paintings were lozenge-shaped, designed to be hung on the diagonal, not at the square.) UPDATE: after reading the dictionary definition, however, it seems that "rhombus" might have been a more appropriate answer...