notes on Piet Mondrian
o Born on March 7, 1872, in Amersfoort, the Netherlands.o He studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, from 1892 to 1897.o 1908 he began to take annual trips to Domburg in Zeeland. o His work was naturalistic, incorporating successive influences of academic landscape and still-life painting, Dutch Impressionism and Symbolism.
o In 1942, his first solo show took place at the Valentine Dudensing Gallery, New York. o Mondrian died February 1, 1944, in New York. his work was held at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. o In 1909 and 1910, he experimented with Pointillism and by 1911 had begun to work in a Cubist mode. o Mondrian decided to move to Paris. o During war years in Holland, he further reduced his colors and geometric shapes and formulated his non-objective Neo-Plastic style. o Mondrian's essays on abstract art were published in the periodical De Stijl. o His late style evolved significantly in response to the city. o He exhibited with De Stijl in 1923, but withdrew from the group around 1925. o World War II forced Mondrian to move to London in 1938 and then to settle in New York in October 1940. o He returned to Paris in July 1919. o From 1912 to 1914, he began to develop an independent abstract style. This group extended its principles of abstraction and simplification beyond to architecture and graphic and industrial design. o Mondrian was visiting the Netherlands when World War I broke out and prevented his return to Paris.
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