Artist Study (Piet

Mondrian)
By- Jash M. Chauhan
Table of contents
01 Artist History

02 Artist Artwork Style

03 Artist Artwork
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Artist History
 Artist History(Piet Mondrian)
Piet Mondrian, known as  Pieter Cornelis Mondrian, was born on March 7, 1872, in Amersfoort, Netherlands and died on
February 1, 1944, in New York, New York, USA. A painter who was an important leader in the development of modern
abstract art and an important representative of the Dutch abstract art movement known as De Stijl ("style"). Mondrian used
the simplest combinations of straight lines, right angles, primary colors, and black, white, and grey in his mature paintings.
The resulting works are characterized by a peculiar formal purity that embodies the artist's spiritual belief in a harmonious
cosmos.

Pieter was the second son of Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan Sr., an amateur draftsman and principal of a reformed primary
school in Amersfoort. The boy grew up in a stable but creative environment; his father belonged to the orthodox Protestant
circle around the conservative Calvinist politician Abraham Kuyper, and his uncle Frits Mondriaan belonged to the school of
landscape painters in The Hague. His uncle and father gave him advice and guidance when he started drawing at the age of
14. Mondrian really wanted to be a painter, but at the insistence of his family he first gets a degree in education; In 1892 he
received the license to teach drawing at secondary schools. That same year, rather than finding a teaching position, he took
painting lessons from a painter in a small town near Winterswijk, where his family lived, and then moved to Amsterdam to
enroll at the Rijksacademie. He became a member of the art association Kunstliefde ("art lovers") in Utrecht, where his first
paintings were exhibited in 1893, and the following year he joined two local art associations in Amsterdam. During this time
he continued to attend evening classes at the drawing academy, impressing his teachers with his self-discipline and
dedication. In 1897 he exhibited for the second time.
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Artist artwork
style
 Artist artwork style(Piet Mondrian)
Piet Mondrian’s artwork style developed every time. Mondrian used the simplest combinations of straight lines, right
angles, primary colours, black, white, and grey, or De Stijl. Until the early 20th century, Mondrian's paintings followed
the dominant currents in Dutch art: landscapes and still lives were drawn from the meadows and polders around
Amsterdam, which he painted in soft colours and painterly lighting effects. The landscapes he painted of the area
around Amsterdam, especially the Gein river, are characterized by clear rhythmic frames and tend towards a
compositional structure rather than the traditional pictorial values ​of light and shadow. This vision of harmony and
rhythm realized with line and colours evolved towards abstraction in the years that followed, but during this period
his painting remained more or less within the traditional bounds of Dutch modern art. Then he began using pure
colours in bold and non-literal ways. Such bold use of colours is reflected in Mondrian's Red Cloud, a quick sketch
made in 1907. When he painted Woods near Oele in 1908, new values ​in his work began to emerge, including linear
movements that the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch somewhat resembled a colour palette based on shades of
yellow, orange, blue, purple and red, reminiscent of the palette of contemporary German Expressionist painters. With
this vigorous and large-scale painting, Mondrian broke with the national tradition of Dutch painting. He started to
use colour and limit his palette to basic tones.
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Artist artwork
Artist Artwork(Piet Mondrian)