Author : Stéphanie Angoh
Publisher : Parkstone International
ISBN 13 : 1780428928
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)
Book Synopsis Piet Mondrian and artworks by : Stéphanie Angoh
Download or read book Piet Mondrian and artworks written by Stéphanie Angoh and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.