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    Mondrian
    Mondrian
    Mondrian
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    Mondrian

    By Jp. A. Calosse

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    Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), who can be assigned to the school of classical modernism, was born in Amersfort, Netherlands. After studying in Amsterdam, he started his artist´s career in the impressionist style as a figure and landscape painter. His works from these years showed the influence of Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) and of Fauvism, a French school from the beginning of the 20th century. When he traveled to Paris in 1911, he discovered Pablo Picasso´s works (1881-1973) and, with that, Cubism. He thereafter became a pioneer of abstract painting in the Netherlands. From the 1920s on, his paintings show a vertical and horizontal composition that, combined with the oppositions of blue, yellow, red, and noncolored spaces, turned into his trademark. His art was very appreciated in New York, where he spent his last years. Mondrian was not only a painter but also an art theoretician and cofounder of the art school De Stijl.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParkstone International
    Release dateDec 22, 2011
    ISBN9781781606018
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      Mondrian - Jp. A. Calosse

      Author: Jp. A. Calosse

      Cover: Stéphanie Angoh

      ISBN 978-1-78160-601-8

      © Confidential Concepts, worldwide, USA

      © Parkstone Press International, New York, USA

      © ARS, New York/Beeldrecht, Amsterdam

      All rights reserved. No part of this may be reproduced or adapted without the permission of the copyright holder, throughout the world.

      Unless otherwise specified, copyright on the works reproduced lies with the respective photographers. Despite intensive research, it has not always been possible to establish copyright ownership. Where this is the case, we would appreciate notification.

      Jp. A. Calosse

      Piet

      Mondrian

      TABLE OF CONTENT

      The Beginning: 1872-1925

      The Years Between: 1925-1940

      The Metropolis: 1940-1944

      Mondrian's New York Works: Theory and Practice

      The Immediate Followers

      Biography

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      1. Victory Boogie-Woogie, 1943-44.

      Oil on canvas with colour ribbon paper.

      Gemeentemuseum, The Hague

      The Beginning: 1872-1925

      By the centenary of his birth in Holland on March 7, 1872, Piet Mondrian had become a celebrated international figure. There were major exhibitions of his work in the United States and abroad, beginning with a retrospective at New York's Guggenheim Museum in the fall of 1971.

      The artist's life and work were extolled in papers and articles published in more than 30 symposia, books, and periodicals. It is appropriate that most of these tributes originated in America, where Mondrian lived as a war refugee during the last four years of his life.

      He had long held a dream of the United States as the land of the future and designed his paintings as harbingers of a new world image.

      The image changed in America yet the theory remained basically as formed in Europe. It was rooted in Holland, as were many aspects of the artist's personality and artistic philosophy.

      His father attained diplomas in drawing, French, and headmastership in The Hague and taught there for several years before being appointed headmaster of a school in Amersfoort. During the ten years that he and his wife Christina Kok lived there, they had the first four of their five children. They named their second child and eldest son (according to the Dutch spelling) Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, Jr.

      Uncle Frits Mondriaan often visited his brother's family when he worked in the vicinity of Winterswijk. There, and later in Amsterdam, he took his nephew on sketching expeditions into the surrounding countryside. Piet acquired technical skill from his uncle, if not his sense of composition. Any comparison of canvases by the two makes clear that the younger artist's understanding of

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