Piet Mondrian1872-1944

Who was Piet Mondrian?

• Born March 7th 1872, Amersfoort, Netherlands• Died February 1st 1944, Manhattan, NYC• Co-founder of the De Stijl Art Movement• Dutch Painter• Art Theorist• Modern Art• Neoplasticism

The Red Tree, 1908

Still Life with Ginger Pot II, 1912

De Stijl

• Body of work produced between 1917 and 1931• Founded in the Netherlands

“pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and color, simplified visual compositions to the vertical and horizontal directions. Used

only primary colors along with black and white.”

Oval Composition, 1914

Composition in Grey and Ochre, 1918

Neoplasticism

• Non-Representational

“White Ground, upon which was painted a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the 3 primary colors”

Rhythm of Black Lines, 1935-42

Composition with Blue and White, 1936

Composition, 1927

Composition No.10, 1939-42

Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red, 1937-42

Artists & Architects

Red and Blue Chair, Gerrit Rietveld, 1917

Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942-43