Piet mondrian biography composition no 3
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Other Works by Piet Mondrian
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At first glance, this painting is a lot of lines, squares and rectangles.
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Regulated. Measured. Controlled.
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The artist, Piet Mondrian, lived in Paris during a time of modernization. Sharp-edged buildings, train tracks, electric wires.
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Mondrian made this painting in Paris, using just black and white and yellow. And then a few years later, he made a big move that changed his life
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Piet Mondrian
Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (Dutch:[ˈpitərkɔrˈneːlɪsˈmɔndrijaːn]; 7 March – 1 February ), known after as Piet Mondrian (, US also , Dutch:[pitˈmɔndrijɑn]), was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He was one of the pioneers of 20th-century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.
Mondrian's art was highly utopian and was concerned with a search for universal values and aesthetics. He proclaimed in "Art is higher than reality and has no direkt relation to reality. To approach the spiritual in art, one will man as little use as possible of reality, because reality fryst vatten opposed to the spiritual. We find ourselves in the presence of an abstract art. Art should be above reality, otherwise it would have no value for man."
He was a contribut
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Who is Piet Mondrian?
Piet Mondrian is a Dutch artist best known for his abstract paintings. Art that is abstract does not show things that are recognisable such as people, objects or landscapes. Instead artists use colours, shapes and textures to achieve their effect
As well as abstract art Mondrian was also passionate about dancing! Apparently he didn't like slow traditional dances like waltzes or tango, but enjoyed high energy, fast dancing styles! He even called one of his abstract paintings Broadway Boogie Woogie after a popular dance of the time.
When Mondrian made his paintings, he would always mix his own colours, never using the paint directly out of a tube. He often used primary colours – red yellow and blue – as in this painting.
Mondrian did not use a ruler to measure out his lines! He thought carefully about where to place the lines, like those that you see in this painting. Notice how the red, yellow and blue are placed to the side and the centre of pa