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Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (Dutch: [ˈpitər kɔrˈneːlɪs ˈmɔndrijaːn]; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), known after 1911 as Piet Mondrian (/ p iː t ˈ m ɒ n d r i ɑː n /, US also /-ˈ m ɔː n-/, Dutch: [pit ˈmɔndrijɑn]), was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
In 1905, Mondrian's painting style began to transition towards Neoplasticism when he visited a retrospective of Post-Impressionist Vincent van Gogh at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, where he was inspired by van Gogh's use of bold colors. Works like Evening; Red Tree (1908) are examples of his use of color. [2] [4]
Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Grey and Blue is Mondrian's first painting after the publication of this essay, visually representing these ideals by stripping away all recognizable forms of physical objects and even the outlines of individual brushstrokes.
Neoplasticism (or neo-plasticism), originating from the Dutch Nieuwe Beelding, is an avant-garde art theory proposed by Piet Mondrian [a] in 1917 and initially employed by the De Stijl art movement. The most notable proponents of this theory were Mondrian and another Dutch artist, Theo van Doesburg . [ 1 ]
In the early 1900s, Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) [77] had read the Theosophical literature with great interest, including The Great Initiates [78] by Édouard Schuré. [79] He joined the Dutch Section of the TS in 1909. [5] [80] As Carel Blotkamp stated, "It is abundantly clear that Theosophy was of crucial importance to Mondrian." [81] [note 14]
Mondrian drew the underlying modular system onto the canvas in charcoal. He then used dark grey oil paints to delineate rectangular areas of varying sizes on this grid. [ 3 ] Thus, the painting's visible rectangles are superimposed on the underlying grid, giving what the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, describes as "an exceptional harmony of ...
Victory Boogie Woogie is the last, unfinished work of the Dutch abstract painter Piet Mondrian, left incomplete when Mondrian died in New York in 1944. He was still working on it three days before dying. [1] Since 1998 it has been in the collection of the Kunstmuseum, in The Hague. [2]
Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow is a 1930 painting [1] by Piet Mondrian, a Dutch artist who was a leading figure in the Neo-Plasticism movement. It consists of thick, black brushwork, defining the borders of colored rectangles. As the title suggests, the only colors used in it besides black and white are red, blue, and yellow.