Artchive piet mondrian biography
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Introduction to the Issue Donald Judd Edward Albee
Nicholas Fox Weber photo: © Charlotte Fox Weber, 2019
Piet Mondrian, Composition in Blue and White, 1935, Oil on canvas 41 x 38",
The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund,
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut Photo Credit: HIP / Art Resource, NY
Piet Mondrian
Nicholas Fox Weber on his forthcoming biography on the artist
with Deanna Sirlin
Piet Mondrian, Composition, 1936, Oil on canvas,28 3/4 x 26 1/16" The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950.
Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Nicholas Fox Weber is writing a biography on the 20th century artist Piet Mondrian. NFW has previously written biographies on Le Corbusier and Balthus, as well as a recent a book, Anni & Josef Albers / Equal and Unequal. As a cultural historian, he writes about artists from a persp
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Biography of Piet Mondrian's early years (1872-1919)
Mondrian grew up in a religious family in Amersfoort and Winterswijk; his arch-Calvinist father, a schoolmaster, espoused views that eventually became seminal to America’s Religious Right. He moved to Amsterdam to study at the Rijksacademie and, although purportedly a traditional academic painter, showed his independence and intensity from the början. He soon became a pioneering modernist, breaking the boundaries of color and composition. In 1912, he moved to Paris, where he painted his own utgåva of Cubism. During the First World War, back in the Netherlands, he began to paint more abstractly, became friendly with the artists who developed De Stijl, and became a serious ballroom dancer. In 1919, Mondrian returned to Paris, never igen to go back to the Netherlands.
Who was this unique individual who seemed to live only to paint and write in order to promulgate pure abstraction as the salvation for humankind? What was th
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Piet Mondrian and his paintings
Piet Mondrian is a Dutch painter who has carved a unique niche for himself on the global platform matching the likes of other celebrity painters. He fryst vatten possibly best known for being one of the founders of the De Stijl, which incorporated an art movement that worked around abstract works, and the new art forms that were being introduced to the world in the early 20th century. The movement was also based on the reductive theory; which took a larger scale image, and brought it to life on the canvas, in architectural works, and in sculpture forms, and in the form of graphic arts as well.
Piet Mondrian was born in the Netherlands, and received his formal training there; he attended the Rijksadame van Beeldende in Amsterdam. Mondrian grew up during a time of lively developments in art. In the year in which he was born, in France, Claude Monet painted Impression, Sunrise, which initiated some of the greatest repercussions the art world had seen since t