Piet Mondrian 1872-1944
Who was Piet Mondrian? Born March 7th 1872, Amersfoort, Netherlands Died February 1st 1944, Manhattan, NYC Co-founder of the De Stijl Art Movement Dutch Painter Art Theorist Modern Art Neoplasticism
The Red Tree, 1908
Still Life with Ginger Pot II, 1912
De Stijl Body of work produced between 1917 and 1931 Founded in the Netherlands “pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and color, simplified visual compositions to the vertical and horizontal directions. Used only primary colors along with black and white.”
Oval Composition, 1914
Composition in Grey and Ochre, 1918
Neoplasticism Non-Representational “White Ground, upon which was painted a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the 3 primary colors”
Rhythm of Black Lines, 1935-42
Composition with Blue and White, 1936
Composition, 1927
Composition No.10, 1939-42
Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red, 1937-42
Artists & Architects Red and Blue Chair, Gerrit Rietveld, 1917
Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942-43