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Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter born on March 7, 1872, in Amersfoort, Netherlands, and died on February 1, 1944, in New York. He is considered one of the founders of the modern Dutch movement De Stijl.
The Dutch artist is best known for his contributions to abstract art, in which he uses only straight lines, primary colors, and neutrals of black, white, and grey. He coined the term neoplasticism for this style.
One of the greatest Dutch artists of the 20th century, Piet Mondrian was also an art theorist. He is known as one of the pioneers of abstract art in the 20th century, as he shifted his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style until his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.
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Mondrian had a long artistic career, basically starting with his Luminism works, after which he experimented with Cubism, and finally turned to Oncology and entered the mature stage of his career.
His work had a huge impact on 20th-century art, not only influencing the course of abstract painting and many major styles and artistic movements such as Color Field Painting, Abstract Expressionism, and Minimalism but also outside the realm of painting fields such as design, architecture, fashion and luxury industries.
TALMUD lists 10 of Piet Mondrian’s most famous artworks:
1, The Red Tree
The Red Tree
The Red Tree was a 1910 painting by Piet Mondrian, during the artist’s glory days, which he painted while he was in the coastal resort of Domburg in Zeeland. At the time it was a summer pop artist colony. His trees illustrate his transition to abstract cubism.
After following popular trends in Dutch art, Piet Mondrian became involved in the Luminism movement, which paid more attention to lighting effects and rendered them using primary colors.
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In this piece, Mondrian created a balance between the contrasting shades of red and blue, between the trees and the blue sky. Mondrian thus develops a sense of balance, which remains his main goal of appearing natural.
This is the most famous painting of Mondrian’s Radiance period and important work in his tree-themed series.
The painting can be seen at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag in The Hague.
2, New York City I
New York City I
New York City I was created in New York in 1942, when Piet Mondrian moved from Europe to New York City in 1940 due to the outbreak of World War II, a transition that led to a new phase in his artistic career.
New York City One, or rather the series that later took its name from New York City, marked the beginning of a new phase in Mondrian’s work. The black lines disappeared along with the primary color rectangles and replaced the black line patterns with colored strips, as well as new features like double lines.
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The artist’s American style lasted until his death in 1944, and New York City I, along with Broadway Boogie-Woogie, is Mondrian’s most famous masterpiece during the final phase of his career, when his artistic style reached its most evolved stage.
3, Self Portrait
Self Portrait
This self-portrait is a 1918 painting by Piet Mondrian.
Although the artist depicted himself in many paintings throughout his artistic career, this one differs from the others in that it is the only one that clearly identifies him as a painter.
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This self-portrait is different from the traditional Mondrian style, more specific and rich in content, and the artist portrays himself in the work as a whole.
The painting can be viewed at the Hague Museum in The Hague, The Netherlands.
4, The Gray Tree
The Gray Tree
The painting was completed when Mondrian began experimenting with Cubism: its foreground and background elements seemed to be mixed, and the palette was very limited. Subtly oval in shape, the tree follows another cubist practice in the work of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
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In The Gray Tree, Mondrian combined the expressiveness of Van Gogh, the non-descriptiveness of Fauvist colors, and the linear patterns of French Art Nouveau to make it more constitutive and sculptural. It is a very innovative work by this artist.
Now in the collection of the Gemcente Museum in The Hague, The Netherlands.
5, Victory Boogie Woogie
Victory Boogie Woogie
Victory Boogie Woogie was Mondrian’s last work, a painting conceived to celebrate the Allied victory in World War II, unfortunately, unfinished until the artist’s death.
As an old artist in his seventies at that time, even in the semi-finished state, this painting showed great creativity and rich connotations. It marked Mondrian’s ability to remain lively, receptive to new affairs, and flexible with his painting skills.
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Bright and lively, the painting reflects the artist’s inspiration by upbeat music and adds immeasurable color to his innovations during his American period, showing that Mondrian was not a dogmatic artist.
As Paul Cezanne said, he “thinking with the eyes”. Victory Boogie-Woogie is a fascinating and convincing example of this development.
6, Composition II In Red, Blue, And Yellow
Composition II In Red, Blue, And Yellow
“Composition II In Red, Blue, And Yellow” is an oil painting created by painter Mondrian from 1924 to 1925.
This is a work that best represents Mondrian’s artistic thought. It puts a square in a rhombus pattern and divides the picture into many triangles, squares & rectangles, and various irregular figures by horizontal and vertical lines of different lengths.
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This painting constructed with simple abstract language contains special expressive effects that many paintings can’t achieve.
It is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, USA.
7, Tableau I, Lozenge with Four Lines and Gray
Tableau I, Lozenge with Four Lines and Gray
In the mid-1920s, Piet Mondrian began to create his “rhombus” paintings to express a more dynamic rhythm in his abstract paintings.
Most of these rhombus works were created after his break with the De Stijl group over the introduction of diagonal lines by Theo van Doesburg.
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A rhombus painting is called a rhombus because of the rhombus formed by Mondrian tilting a square canvas at 45 degrees. The painting relies on only four lines of varying thickness, making it one of Mondrian’s smallest canvases.
It is also the artist’s most famous rhombus painting, a style of creation that set an important precedent for minimalism in the 1960s.
8, Composition No. 10
Composition No. 10
The period from 1912 to 1917 is defined by art historians as Piet Mondrian’s period of Cubism.
In 1914, Piet Mondrian lived for a time in the seaside town, creating a series of great works inspired by the sea and the breakwaters.
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A series of paintings called “The Pier and the Sea” pushed his Cubist style to the extreme and is considered a decisive step towards pure abstraction.
Composition No. 10 is the culmination of the series and is considered to be the highlight of his career development.
9, Broadway Boogie Woogie
Broadway Boogie Woogie
“Broadway Boogie Woogie” was finished in 1943.
Mondrian heard Broadway jazz on his first night in Manhattan and fell in love with the note division and improvisational melody.
“Broadway Jazz” originated from his fascination with New York architecture and the free rhythm of jazz, and he compared it with his own “dynamic rhythm”.
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In this work, Mondrian removed the commonly used black and added inconsistent red, blue, gray, and white color points to the yellow geometric lines.
These elements respond to the stop and start movement of the New York transportation system as if blinking like a traffic light on Broadway.
10, Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Gray and Blue
Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Gray and Blue
In the 1920s, Mondrian began to create abstract paintings with his own characteristics, that is, the palette was limited to three primary colors such as white, black, and gray, and the composition was composed of thick black horizontal and vertical lines, which outlined various colors or reserved rectangles. Outline.
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The artist’s neoplastic art style differs from cubism and futurism and is an abstract art style.
In this painting, he used a large, dominant block of red, balanced by smaller blocks of yellow, blue, gray and white distributed around it. This is one of his most famous early oncology masterpieces.
Since the 1920s, many artists and designers have referenced this style in all aspects of culture.
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Piet Mondrian was one of the most famous painters of the 20th century, best known for his geometric abstract art. He was a pioneer in the development of geometric abstraction, and his paintings are iconic examples of the Mannerist movement.
As a Dutch painter, he believed that art should be simple and pure, it should be based on the shape and color of the elements.
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While Mondrian denies any overt religious influence in his art, he admits that growing up in a Christian home had a deep influence on him, especially since there are many references to nature in his mature work.
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