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Born at Amersfoort in The Netherlands, Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan ( March 7, 1872 - February 1, 1944), was a Dutch painter and an important contributor of the De Stijl art movement, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg. After 1911 he also signed his work as Mondrian.He began his career as a teacher in primary education, but while teaching he also practiced painting. Most of his work from this period is naturalistic or impressionistic. On display in the Hague's Gemeentemuseum is a number of paintings from this period, including such post-impressionist works as "The Red Mill" and "Trees in Moonlight". (Examples of his more familiar geometric later work are also on display).
He was deeply struck by an exhibition of Cubism held in Amsterdam in 1911 which profoundly affected his later work. His search for simplification is shown in two versions of "stilleven met gemberpot" ("still life with ginger pot"). The 1911 version[1] is cubist, in the 1912 version[2] it is reduced to a round shape with triangles and rectangleIn geometry, a rectangle is a defined as a quadrilateral polygon in which all four angles are right angles. From this definition, it follows that a rectangle has two pairs of opposite sides of equal length; that is, a rectangle is a parallelogram. A squars. He even simplifies his last name, by dropping an 'a', signing his work as "Mondrian"[3].
His painting " Broadway Boogie Woogie " at the San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtThe San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SFMOMA is a museum in San Francisco, California, of Mario Botta architect, dedicated to modern art. It opened in 1935. At that time, it was the only modern art museum on the west coast of the United States. The curre is highly influential in the school of abstract geometric painting. The piece is made up of a number of shimmering squares of bright color that leap from the canvas, then appear to shimmer, drawing you into those neon lights.
His most well-known works are the familiar colored squares of three or four parts asymmetrically grouped, segmented blocks of straight lines and primary colors that some believe look as though anyone, even a child, could paint; however, others find his compositions in the style which Mondrian termed neoplasticism to be original and difficult to reproduce to obtain the same effect that Mondrian's work can give to some. His oft-emulated reductionist style continues to inspire artists, fashion and advertising. Although Mondrian was a fine artist (not a commercial artist), he is considered the father of advertising design, because of the widespread and continued adoption of his grid style as a basic structure of graphic design layout.
He died in New York CitySkyline, with Statue of Liberty New York, New York" redirects here. For alternate meanings, see New York, New York (disambiguation). New York — officially named City of New York and often called New York City to distinguish it from the state of New York, in 1944, of pneumoniaPneumonia is defined as an infection involving the alveoli of the lungs. It occurs in patients of all age groups, but young children and the elderly, as well as immunocompromised and immune deficient patients, are especially at risk. Causal therapy is wit, and was interred in the Cypress Hills CemeteryCypress Hills Cemetery the first nonsectarian cemetery corporation organized in the Brooklyn/Queens area of New York, is located at 833 Jamaica Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. Established in 1848, a section of the cemetery was designated as the Cypress Hill in Brooklyn, New York.
Reference: Schapiro, Mondrian: On the Humanity of Abstract Painting (George Braziller 1995).
