Piet Mondrian

Dutch, 1872-1944
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Self Portrait
Piet Mondrian
Item ID:27725
Composition with Grid VII (Lozenge)
Piet Mondrian
Item ID:27726
Place de la Concorde
Piet Mondrian
Item ID:27727
New York City I
Piet Mondrian
Item ID:27728
Victory Boogie Woogie, unfinished
Piet Mondrian
Item ID:27729
Solitary House
Piet Mondrian
Item ID:27730
Little Girl
Piet Mondrian
Item ID:27731
Still Life with Gingerpot II
Piet Mondrian
Item ID:27732
Composition with Oval in Color Planes II
Piet Mondrian
Item ID:27733
Composition with Grid VII (Lozenge) II
Piet Mondrian
Item ID:27734
Composition with Grid IX
Piet Mondrian
Item ID:27735
Composition A
Piet Mondrian
Item ID:27736
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Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter who carried abstraction to its furthest limits. Through radical simplification of composition and color, he sought to expose the basic principles that underlie all appearances. Born in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, on March 7, 1872, and originally named Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, Mondrian embarked on an artistic career over his family's objections, studying at the Amsterdam Academy of Fine Arts. His early works, through 1907, were calm landscapes painted in delicate grays, mauves, and dark greens. In 1908, under the influence of the Dutch painter Jan Toorop, he began to experiment with brighter colors; this represented the beginning of his attempts to transcend nature. Moving to Paris in 1911, Mondrian adopted a cubist-influenced style, producing analytical series such as Trees (1912-1913) and Scaffoldings (1912-1914). He moved progressively from seminaturalism through increased abstraction, arriving finally at a style in which he limited himself to small vertical and horizontal brushstrokes.

In 1917 Mondrian and the Dutch painter Theo van Doesburg founded De Stijl magazine, in which Mondrian developed his theories of a new art form he called neoplasticism. He maintained that art should not concern itself with reproducing images of real objects, but should express only the universal absolutes that underlie reality. He rejected all sensuous qualities of texture, surface, and color, reducing his palette to flat primary colors. His masterly application of these theories led to such works as Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue (1937-1942, Tate Gallery, London), in which the painting, composed solely of a few black lines and well-balanced blocks of color, creates a monumental effect out of all proportion to its carefully limited means. When Mondrian moved to New York City in 1940, his style became freer and more rhythmic, and he abandoned severe black lines in favor of lively chain-link patterns of bright colors, particularly notable in his last complete masterwork, Broadway Boogie-Woogie (1942-1943, Museum of Modern Art, New York City). Mondrian was one of the most influential 20th-century artists. His theories of abstraction and simplification not only altered the course of painting but also exerted a profound influence on architecture, industrial design, and the graphic arts. Mondrian died in New York on February 1, 1944.


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