PIET MONDRIAN
Yves Saint Laurent dress tribute to Piet Mondrian
Piet Mondrian-(1872-1944)
Pieter Cornelis “Piet” Mondriaan, was a Dutch painter and a follower of the Bauhaus. HE was also 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 white ground, upon which was painted a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the three primary colors.
Mondrian’s paintings are not composed of perfectly flat planes of color, as one might expect. Brush strokes are evident throughout, although they are subtle, and the artist appears to have used different techniques for the various elements.The black lines are the flattest elements, with the least amount of depth. The colored forms have the most obvious brush strokes, all running in one direction. Most interesting, however, are the white forms, which clearly have been painted in layers, using brush strokes running in different directions. This generates a greater sense of depth in the white forms, as though they are overwhelming the lines and the colors, which indeed they were, as Mondrian’s paintings of this period came to be increasingly dominated by white space.His art and theory influenced the Bauhaus movement and the development of the International style in architecture. In 1940 he settled in New York City.
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