Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan (1872-1944) lived in Paris (1919-1938), then in London, and from 1940 in New York.
Short Biography:
He was a founder member of the de Stijl movement, which held that art should pervade life, and that the functional should also be aesthetic, and chief exponent of Neo-Plasticism, a rigorous abstract style which was based on the use of simple geometric forms and pure colours.
In Paris from 1911 Mondrian was inspired by Cuhism. He returned to the Netherlands during World War I, where he used a series of still lifes and landscapes to refine his ideas, ultimately developing a pure abstract style.
His aesthetic theories were published in die journal De Sujl from 1917, in Neoplasticism in 1920, and in the essay "Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art" in 1937.
From the New York period his Broadway Boogie-Woogie (1942-1943) (Museum of Modem Art, New York) reflects a late preoccupation with jazz rhythms.
Why is Piet Mondrian famous?
Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter, a pioneer of abstract art.
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