Piet MondrianPays-Bas, 1872–1944Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue
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During the 1910s, Piet Mondrian’s art progressed from Cubism to an increasingly abstract style based on the form of a grid. He completely abandoned the representation of natural appearances, limiting himself to horizontal and vertical rectangles and three primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) along with black and white. Intensely intellectual and deeply philosophical, Mondrian believed that following the devastation of World War I, such abstract compositions could contribute to a more harmonious society by communicating in a universal, visual language.
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- 1967.215
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Dans la vie de Piet Mondrian
La vie entière1919–1938
Return to Paris
In 1919 Mondrian left the Netherlands for Paris for the second and last time and at once turned to his studio: to hide its flaws he tacked large single-colour placards to the walls, accented by compositions of smaller coloured paper rectangles. From then on, periods of painting alternated with experiments in regrouping the papers on the walls.
1926
Katherine Dreier buys “Painting I”
Katherine Dreier, co-founder of the Society of Independent Artists, visited Mondrian's Paris studio and acquired the diamond composition “Painting I”, shown afterwards at the Brooklyn Museum in the first major exhibition of modern art in America since the Armory Show; in the catalogue she called Mondrian the third great Dutch painter after Rembrandt and Van Gogh.
1926
André Kertész photographs Mondrian's Paris flat
Mondrian's Paris apartment, his pipe and his glasses were captured in minimalist photographs by André Kertész that became emblematic of modern photography.
