What is Piet Mondrian?
{{Infobox Artist | name = Piet Mondrian | image = Piet Mondrian 2.jpg | nationality = [[Netherlands|Dutch]] | field = [[Painting]] | training = | movement = [[De Stijl]] | works = | patrons = | awards = | honorific_suffix = ghdes }} [[File:Tableau I, by Piet Mondriaan.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Tableau I (Piet Mondriaan, 1921)]] '''Piet Mondrian''' (7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944) was a [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[modern art]]ist of the [[De stijl]] group. His early paintings show abstract [[landscape]]s in [[Impressionism|post-impressionist]] and [[Cubism|cubist]] style. As his career went on, he started to paint in a more [[abstract art|abstract style]]. Mondrian painted about 250 of these geometric abstracts, from 1917 to 1944. Mondrian called his style “neoplasticism”. Escaping in 1940 from a Europe at war, Mondrian spent the last four years of his life in [[New York City]]. His paintings of that time express exuberance at city life. In his final painting, ''Broadway Boogie Woogie'' (painted around 1942 or 1943), the checkerboard lines, previously black, are now painted blue, gray, red and yellow. The yellow was apparently inspired by New York’s Yellow cabs. == Further reading == *Bax, Marty 2002. ''Complete Mondrian''. Lund Humphries, London. {{ISBN|978-0-85331-803-3}} *Bois, Yve-Alain ''et al.'' 1995. Piet Mondrian: 1872-1944. Bulfinch Press. {{ISBN|978-0-8212-2164-8}} * Busignani, Alberto 1968. ''Mondrian: the life and work of the artist, illustrated by 80 colour plates''. London: Thames and Hudson. *Locher, Hans 1994. ''Piet Modrian: colour, structure and symbolism''. Verlag Gachnang & Springer, Bern, Switzerland. {{ISBN|978-3-906127-44-6}} *Milner, John 1992. ''Mondrian''. London: Phaidon. {{ISBN|0-7148-2659-6}} *Seuphor, Michel & Harry N. Abrams 1955. ''Piet Mondrian, life and work''. {{Modernism}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mondrian, Piet}} [[Category:1872 births]] [[Category:1944 deaths]] [[Category:Dutc