1. Piet Mondrian

2. 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

3. The Red Tree, 1908

4. Still Life with Ginger Pot II, 1912

5. 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.”

6. Oval Composition, 1914

7. Composition in Grey and Ochre, 1918

8. Neoplasticism Non-Representational
“White Ground, upon which was painted a grid of vertical and
horizontal black lines and the 3 primary colors”

9. Rhythm of Black Lines,

10. Composition with Blue and White, 1936

11. Composition, 1927

12. Composition No.10,

13. Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red, 1937-42

14. Artists & Architects
Red and Blue Chair, Gerrit Rietveld, 1917

15. Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942-43