Piet mondrian art movement
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Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
He was born in Amersfoort about 40 kilometres south of Amsterdam. There is a museum here today in his childhood home dedicated to his life and work.
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 applied his theory and worldview to all elements of his life – living a simple but highly structured existence. He never married claiming his partner would not be able to accommodate his rigorous aesthetic senses. He designed his own furniture using the same geometric elements in his approach.
It was with his arrival in Paris from the Netherlands in 1911, that Mondrian encountered experiments in Cubism
He proclaimed in 1914: “
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Piet Mondrian
Dutch painter (1872–1944)
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Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (Dutch:[ˈpitərkɔrˈneːlɪsˈmɔndrijaːn]; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), known after 1911 as Piet Mondrian (, , Dutch:[pitˈmɔndrijɑn]), was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He was 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 va
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10 Things to know about Piet Mondrian
Key dates in Mondrian’s life
- 1872: He is born in Amersfoort, the Netherlands
- 1886: He starts studying to become a drawing teacher
- 1892: He moves to Amsterdam and starts his study at the Rijksacademie
- 1898: He is rejected from the Dutch Prix de Rome
- 1904-1905: He moves to the province of Brabant and paints many landscapes
- 1912: He moves to Paris and adopts the name Piet Mondrian
- 1914: He visits the Netherlands and cannot leave after the First World War breaks out
- 1917: He co-founds the magazine De Stijl
- 1919: He returns to Paris
- 1928: Two of his works are shown in the Venice Biennale
- 1938: He leaves Paris for London due to the threat of the Second World War
- 1940: Mondrian leaves for New York after Paris is taken over by the Germans
- 1944: He dies aged 71
Dutch painter and pictorial abstraction visionary, Piet Mondrian, was responsible for one of the most important art movements in the 20th century. Mondrian single-handedly founded Neoplasticism, concocting a way to represent form that was c
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