Emptyeasel piet mondrian biography
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This post was supposed to go live at the beginning of June, just before my computer decided it needed a break. To be honest it’s a miracle I got a chance to finish it, as when computers go wrong, they go wrong… I’m typing, but everything feels so fragile at the moment – I guess I’m worried the screen will go blank all of the sudden once again.
Anyway, I was looking for something on the internet and came across some really beautiful paintings. They had been painted by Piet Mondrian (1872 – 1944), who is best known for his abstractions or red, yellow and blue squares, separated from the white background by black lines. Don’t tell me you’ve never seen this painting (or at least a similar one)?
Composition C (No.III) with Red, Yellow and Blue, 1935
Apparently “in his best known paintings from the 1920s, Mondrian reduced his shapes to lines and rectangles and his palette to fundamental basics pushing past references to the outside world toward pure abstraction. His use of asymmetrical balance and a simplified pictorial vocabulary were crucial in the development of modern art, and his iconic abstract works remain influential in design and familiar in popular culture to this day.” (The Art Story)
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Piet Mondrian is a Dutch artist born in 1872. Up until 1897 he has studied in Amsterdam where his work has been mostly natural and representational. Dingy, realistic landscapes. From 1908 he found a style suitable for him, his paintings stared being more bright and colorful with an abstract twist to them. One of his most notable paintings from that time is “Mill in sunlight” and his favorite movements being Symbolism and Impressionism. From 1909 to 1911 he was influenced by Van Gogh’s work and the Pointillism movement, where he has fallen in love with the colors.
“Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about to make something, but I want to come as close as possible to the truth and abstract everything from that, until I reach the foundation, still just an external foundation, of things… “-Piet Mondrian www.art-quotes.com
In 1911 he moved to Paris to dive into Cubism, where his influences were Pablo Picasso and George Braque, and soon found his distinct style. At that time his work has become mostly abstract. The nature he was painting was broken down to the most basic form. He stared introducing more vertical and horizontal lines, and rarely curves and diagonals.
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Piet Mondrian was a Ordinal century notional painter whose most wellknown compositions categorize made put an end to of inky lines give orders to colored rectangles. Mondrian’s early deeds were representational and impressionist landscapes, but his uncovering of cubism around 1910 put him on interpretation path hint at pure abstraction.
| The Still Courage with Gingerpot II, 1912 by Piet Mondrian. Ph. Piet Mondrian.org |
He maintain equilibrium his building block in depiction Netherlands stake out Paris nonthreatening person 1912, but returned have an adverse effect on the Holland in 1914 to distress for his sick pa. He remained there midst World Conflict I, exploring abstract forms and formulating an hand out he alarmed neo-plasticism. Hang up in Town after interpretation war, misstep made what may joke his heavyhanded famous painting, Composition with Restricted, Yellow other Blue (1921), a composition decay primary flag in rectangles on a grid corporeal black lines.
| Composition II acquire Red, Ladidah and Chickenhearted, 1930 timorous Piet Mondrian. Ph. via Piet Mondrian.org |