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Piet Mondrian
Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, known after 1911 as Piet Mondrian, 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 taken down to s…
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culture · Dutch painter (1872–1944) · painter · draftsperson · architectural drafter · illustrator · etcher · visual artist · furniture designer · exlibrist · watercolorist · writer · also Piet Mondrian, Mondriaan, Piet Cornelis Mondrian, Piet Cornelies Mondrian, Mondrian
Born 7 March 1872 · Died 1 February 1944 · Q151803
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2023· 2 entries
Artnet: In Pictures: Tate Modern Pairs Abstract Art Pioneers Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian—Who Never Met in Life But Shared a Love of Nature
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2022· 7 entries
Forbes: Here’s Why This Piet Mondrian Painting Sold For $51 Million—More Than 20 Times The Last Price It Fetched At Auction
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Observer: A Piet Mondrian Painting Sold for a Record Breaking $51 Million at Auction
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Forbes: Rare Piet Mondrian Painting Could Sell For More Than $50 Million
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Smithsonian Magazine: Who Was Piet Mondrian Before He Painted His Iconic Abstract Grids?
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By the watch "RED, BLUE AND WHITE, BY PIET MONDRIAN (SUOZ344)" which celebrates the painting Composition in Red, Blue and White II as part of a collaboration between Swatch and Centre Pompidou
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Design historian Stephen Bayley wrote: "Mondrian has come to mean Modernism
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Tecno, in Partnership with Museum of Fine Arts, released a Special Edition of their Camon 19 Pro smartphone, incorporating his paintings into its design
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2021· 2 entries
Moneycontrol: Piet Mondrian
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Career landmark: claim for restitution of an artwork.
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2015· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: The Geometric Aesthetics of Piet Mondrian's Studios
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2008· 2 entries
The Dutch television program Andere Tijden found the only known movie footage with Mondrian
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Nike released a pair of Dunk Low SB shoes inspired by Mondrian's neo-plastic paintings
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1945· 1 entry
Had been displayed upside down, since at least 1980, at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Germany, where it is now held
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1944· 4 entries
Died 1944-02-01.
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“When I first saw the work of the Impressionists, Van Gogh, Van Dongen and the Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.”
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“¿Cuadrados? No veo ningún cuadrado en mis cuadros.”
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“We arrive at a portrayal of other things, such as the laws governing matter. These are the great generalities – Which do not change.”
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1940· 1 entry
Left London for Manhattan in New York City, where he would remain until his death
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1939· 1 entry
Living in North London, he would stroll down to Camden Town to dance at the Camden Palace or the Bedford
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1938· 1 entry
And 1940, across the Atlantic to Manhattan
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1936· 1 entry
In Paris, was carried to Mondrian when he emigrated to New York, where he completed the painting in 1942 - one of Mondrian's so called 'transatlantic paintings'
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1926· 1 entry
Katherine Dreier, co-founder of New York City's Society of Independent Artists (along with Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray), visited Piet Mondrian's studio in Paris and acquired one of his diamond compositions, Painting I
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1921· 2 entries
“the art of the foreseeable future for all true Anthroposophists and Theosophists”
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In a letter to Steiner, Mondrian argued that his neoplasticism was "the art of the foreseeable future for all true Anthroposophists and Theosophists"
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1920· 2 entries
Mondrian’s text was translated into French and published as Le Néoplasticisme
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The style for which he came to be renowned began to appear
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1919· 1 entry
Set about at once to make his studio a nurturing environment for paintings he had in mind that would increasingly express the principles of neoplasticism about which he had been writing for two years
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1918· 2 entries
Mondrian returned to France, where he would remain until 1938
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Wrote "I got everything from the Secret Doctrine", referring to a book written by Blavatsky
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1916· 2 entries
“My technique which was more or less Cubist, and therefore more or less pictorial, came under the influence of his precise method.”
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Mondrian wrote, "My technique which was more or less Cubist, and therefore more or less pictorial, came under the influence of his precise method
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1914· 2 entries
World War I began, forcing him to remain there for the duration of the conflict
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"Art is higher than reality and has no direct relation to reality
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1913· 1 entry
Began to fuse his art and his theosophical studies into a theory that signaled his final break from representational painting
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1912· 3 entries
“[on his two paintings 'Sea' and 'Trees', both made in 1912”
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Mondrian moved to Paris and changed his name, dropping an "a" from "Mondriaan", to emphasize his departure from the Netherlands, and his integration within the Parisian avant-garde
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Marked the beginning of a period of profound change
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1908· 1 entry
Became interested in the theosophical movement launched by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky in the late 19th century, and in 1909 he joined the Dutch branch of the Theosophical Society
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1892· 1 entry
Mondrian entered the Academy for Fine Art in Amsterdam
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1872· 1 entry
Born 1872-03-07.
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