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Piet Mondrian: Life and Art of the Painter Who Depicted the World in Primary Colors

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By Adam Hencz

“The first aim in painting should be universal expression.”
Piet Mondrian

Dutch artist Piet Mondrian is one of the greatest figures of modernart and abstract painting. With his compositions of black lines closing up rectangles of primary colors, Mondrian created some of the most iconic works of early twentieth-century abstract art. Besides being an innovative artist who experimented boldly, he was also a prolific writer, who wrote long essays and publications on art theory. He coined the term of a unique avant-garde style he developed called Neo-Plasticism and recorded its design principles published in the primary periodical of the De Stijl movement. At the center of his art theory was a pure vision of art based on fundamental elements of painting: color, line, and form.

Who was Piet Mondrian?

Born in 1872 in Amersfoort, Mondrian spent his childhood and received formal art training in the Netherlands. At the age of 16, he left scho

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Who is Piet Mondrian?

Piet Mondrian is a Dutch artist best known for his abstract paintings. Art that is abstract does not show things that are recognisable such as people, objects or landscapes. Instead artists use colours, shapes and textures to achieve their effect

As well as abstract art Mondrian was also passionate about dancing! Apparently he didn't like slow traditional dances like waltzes or tango, but enjoyed high energy, fast dancing styles! He even called one of his abstract paintings Broadway Boogie Woogie after a popular dance of the time.

When Mondrian made his paintings, he would always mix his own colours, never using the paint directly out of a tube. He often used primary colours – red yellow and blue – as in this painting.

Mondrian did not use a ruler to measure out his lines! He thought carefully about where to place the lines, like those that you see in this painting. Notice how the red, yellow and blue are placed to the side and the centre of painting doesn't have any colour. Mondrian often used colour and composition in this way. (A compositi

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Piet Mondrian

Dutch painter (1872–1944)

"Mondrian" redirects here. For other uses, see Mondrian (disambiguation).

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