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Piet Mondrian Broadway Boogie Woogie mk87
1942/43
Oil on canvas
127x127cm
New York,The Museum of Madern Art
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Piet Mondrian Oval Compositon mk87
1913
Oil on canva
94x78cm
Amsterdam,Stedelijk Museum
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Piet Mondrian Composition NO.ii Composition with Blue and Red mk87
1929
Oil on canvas
40.5x32cm
New York
The Museum of Modern Art
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Piet Mondrian Portrait Adele Bloch Bauer mk92
1907
138x138cm
Wien,Osterreichische Galerie
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Piet Mondrian Composition Vii MK169
1913
Cloth
104.5x113.7cm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
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Piet Mondrian Red tree mk209
1908
28x39
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Piet Mondrian Eucalyptus tree mk209
1910
20x15
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Piet Mondrian Composition NO.XVI mk209
1912/13
33x29
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Piet Mondrian Composition with red,yellow and blue mk223
oil on canvas
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Piet Mondrian Trees at the edge of Gaiyin river mk226
Oil on canvas
25x32cm
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Piet Mondrian The still life with plaster mk226
oil on canvas
73.5x61.5cm
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Piet Mondrian Self-Portrait mk225
Oil on canvas
50.5x39.5cm
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Piet Mondrian Farmhouse mk226
Oil on canvas
28.5x36.5cm
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Piet Mondrian The houses beside the poplar trees mk226
40x31.5cm
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Piet Mondrian The Rope in front of the farmhouse mk226
Oil on canvas
31.5x37.5cm
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Piet Mondrian The houses on the Liyin river mk226
30x38cm
1900
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Piet Mondrian The Windmill at the edge of water mk226
30x38cm
1900-1904
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Piet Mondrian Factory mk226
35x48cm
1900
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Piet Mondrian Houses mk226
Oil on board
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Piet Mondrian Landscape mk226
Oil on canvas
63.5x76cm
1902-1903
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Piet Mondrian
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Dutch
1872-1944
Piet Mondrian Location
was a Dutch painter.
He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg. He evolved a non-representational form which he termed Neo-Plasticism. This consisted of a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the use of the three primary colours.
When 47-year-old Piet Mondrian left his artistically conservative native Holland for unfettered Paris for the second and last time in 1919, he set about at once to make his studio a nurturing environment for paintings he had in mind that would increasingly express the principles of Neo-Plasticism about which he had been writing for two years. To hide the studio's structural flaws quickly and inexpensively, he tacked up large rectangular placards, each in a single color or neutral hue. Smaller colored paper squares and rectangles, composed together, accented the walls. Then came an intense period of painting. Then again he addressed the walls, repositioning the colored cutouts, adding to their number, altering the dynamics of color and space, producing new tensions and equilibrium. Before long, he had established a creative schedule in which a period of painting took turns with a period of experimentally regrouping the smaller papers on the walls, a process that directly fed the next period of painting. It was a pattern he followed for the rest of his life, through wartime moves from Paris to London??s Hampstead in 1938 and 1940, across the Atlantic to Manhattan.
At 71 in the fall of 1943, Mondrian moved into his second and final New York studio at 15 East 59th Street, and set about again to create the environment he had learned over the years was most congenial to his modest way of life and most stimulating to his art. He painted the high walls the same off-white he used on his easel and on the seats, tables and storage cases he designed and fashioned meticulously from discarded orange and apple-crates. He glossed the top of a white metal stool in the same brilliant primary red he applied to the cardboard sheath he made for the radio-phonograph that spilled forth his beloved jazz from well-traveled records, Visitors to this last studio seldom saw more than one or two new canvases, but found, often to their astonishment, that eight large compositions of colored bits of paper he had tacked and re-tacked to the walls in ever-changing relationships constituted together an environment that, paradoxically and simultaneously, was both kinetic and serene, stimulating and restful. It was the best space, Mondrian said, that he had ever inhabited. Tragically, he was there for only a few months: he died of pneumonia in February 1944.
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