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Piet Mondrian
After 1906
Born
Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan
(1872-03-07)7 March 1872
Amersfoort, Netherlands
Died
1 February 1944(1944-02-01) (aged 71)
New York City, U.S.
Education
Rijksakademie (Academy of Fine Arts), Amsterdam
Known for
Painting
Notable work
Evening; Red Tree, Gray Tree, Composition with Red Blue and Yellow, Broadway Boogie Woogie, Victory Boogie Woogie
Movement
De Stijl, abstract art
Signature
Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (Dutch:[ˈpi:tərkɔrˈneːlɪsˈmɔndrijaːn]), after 1906 known as Piet Mondrian (/piːtˈmɒndriɑːn/, also US: /-ˈmɔːn-/, Dutch:[pitˈmɔndrijɑn]; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th-century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.
Mondrian's art was highly utopian and was concerned with a search for universal values and aesthetics. He proclaimed in 1914: "Art is higher than reality and has no direct relation to reality. To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual. We find ourselves in the presence of an abstract art. Art should be above reality, otherwise it would have no value for man."
He was a contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which he co-founded with Theo van Doesburg. He evolved a non-representational form which he termed Neoplasticism. This was the new 'pure plastic art' which he believed was necessary in order to create 'universal beauty'. To express this, Mondrian eventually decided to limit his formal vocabulary to the three primary colors (red, blue and yellow), the three primary values (black, white and gray) and the two primary directions (horizontal and vertical). Mondrian's arrival in Paris from the Netherlands in 1911 marked the beginning of a period of profound change. He encountered experiments in Cubism and with the intent of integrating himself within the Parisian avant-garde removed an 'a' from the Dutch spelling of his name (Mondriaan).
Mondrian's work had an enormous influence on 20th century art, influencing not only the course of abstract painting and numerous major styles and art movements (e.g. Color Field painting, Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism), but also fields outside the domain of painting, such as design, architecture and fashion. Design historian Stephen Bayley said: "Mondrian has come to mean Modernism. His name and his work sum up the High Modernist ideal. I don't like the word 'iconic', so let's say that he's become totemic – a totem for everything Modernism set out to be."
Mondriaan (Dutch: [ˈpi:tər kɔrˈneːlɪs ˈmɔndrijaːn]), after 1906 known as PietMondrian (/piːt ˈmɒndriɑːn/, also US: /- ˈmɔːn-/, Dutch: [pit ˈmɔndrijɑn]; 7...
influence on the early formations of the geometric abstract styles of PietMondrian and his colleagues in the early 20th century. The spiritualism also...
new life : the collected writings of PietMondrian. Thames and Hudson. pp. 30–31. ISBN 9780500600115. Mondrian, Piet (1920). "Neo-Plasticism: The General...
Broadway Boogie Woogie is a painting by PietMondrian completed in 1943, after he had moved to New York in 1940. Compared to his earlier work, the canvas...
with van Doesburg, the group's principal members were the painters PietMondrian, Vilmos Huszár, Bart van der Leck, the architects Gerrit Rietveld, Robert...
aroused by nature. (Jean Metzinger, c. 1907) Rhythm, for artists such as PietMondrian, is important in painting as it is in music. If one defines rhythm as...
last, unfinished work of the Dutch abstract painter PietMondrian, left incomplete when Mondrian died in New York in 1944. He was still working on it...
artists, particularly painters. Artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, PietMondrian, and Luigi Russolo chose Theosophy as the main ideological and philosophical...
paintings of PietMondrian (1872–1944). Because these six shift dresses played a major role in this collection, the collection is called the Mondrian Collection...
preoccupations in all areas of Western culture at that time. Wassily Kandinsky, PietMondrian, and Kazimir Malevich all believed in redefining art as the arrangement...
Georgiana Houghton and PietMondrian. Spiritualism also inspired the pioneering abstract art of Vasily Kandinsky, PietMondrian, Kasimir Malevich and František...
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the compilation pointer moves. Piet was named after the Dutch painter PietMondrian. The original intended name, Mondrian, was already taken by an open-source...
Gray Tree is an 1911 oil painting by PietMondrian. This painting was made in 1911 on canvas on a board measuring 78.5 × 107.5 cm. It is exhibited at...
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Suzanne Valadon, PietMondrian, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro and Vincent van Gogh. Montmartre is...
abstractionists such as Kasimir Malevich and PietMondrian have also embraced this approach towards abstract painting. Mondrian's painting "Composition No. 10" (1939–1942)...
Dutch painter, designer, and ceramicist. With Theo van Doesburg and PietMondrian he founded the De Stijl art movement. Son of a house painter, he started...
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