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Piet Mondrian was a Dutch artist who began his career painting landscapes but later moved to abstraction. In Paris, he was influenced by Cubism which moved him away from naturalism. In 1917, he co-founded the De Stijl art movement whose goal was creating universal art using primary colors, black, white, and grey within a rectangular composition of perpendicular lines. Mondrian felt this orderly style revealed a cosmic order and could help overcome human suffering. His last major work was Broadway Boogie Woogie, painted in New York, which retained his style of primary colors and vertical/horizontal bands while modifying his strict aesthetic vision.

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Artistic Inspirations Artists who use pattern and colour! Molen (Mill); Mill in Sunlight, 1908 Broadway Boogie Woogie his last work of art Composition with red blue and yellow Piet Mondrian, one of the principle artists responsible for twentieth-century non-objective painting, was born in Holland. He began his career by painting landscapes. Mondrian then moved to Paris where his close contact with Cubist ideas reinforced his path from naturalism to abstraction. In 1917 he was among the founding members of the De Stijl group in Holland, whose goal was to create a universal art independent of individual emotions by setting out such general aesthetic criteria as: form restricted to the rectangle, colour limited to the primaries (red, yellow, blue) and to black, white and gray and composition formed from perpendicular planes asymmetrically arranged. To Mondrian the world of the picture was its own truth-its own "plastic" reality. Colour, line, form, composition, and rhythm, independent of natural appearances and personal emotions, reveal a cosmic order. This order in art brought man in balance and with universe, his only chance to overcome human suffering and unhappiness. In New York he painted the famous work Broadway Boogie Woogie which shows a modification of his acetic vision, yet still retains his highly disciplined style of; primary colours and vertical and horizontal bands. http://www.dropbears.com/ a/art/biography/Piet_Mondrian.html The Grey Tree Trees by Mondrian

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  • 1. Artistic Inspirations Artists who use pattern and colour! Molen (Mill); Mill in Sunlight, 1908 Broadway Boogie Woogie his last work of art Composition with red blue and yellow Piet Mondrian, one of the principle artists responsible for twentieth-century non-objective painting, was born in Holland. He began his career by painting landscapes. Mondrian then moved to Paris where his close contact with Cubist ideas reinforced his path from naturalism to abstraction. In 1917 he was among the founding members of the De Stijl group in Holland, whose goal was to create a universal art independent of individual emotions by setting out such general aesthetic criteria as: form restricted to the rectangle, colour limited to the primaries (red, yellow, blue) and to black, white and gray and composition formed from perpendicular planes asymmetrically arranged. To Mondrian the world of the picture was its own truth-its own "plastic" reality. Colour, line, form, composition, and rhythm, independent of natural appearances and personal emotions, reveal a cosmic order. This order in art brought man in balance and with universe, his only chance to overcome human suffering and unhappiness. In New York he painted the famous work Broadway Boogie Woogie which shows a modification of his acetic vision, yet still retains his highly disciplined style of; primary colours and vertical and horizontal bands. http://www.dropbears.com/ a/art/biography/Piet_Mondrian.html The Grey Tree Trees by Mondrian