Mondrian Research Paper

When arriving to Paris, Mondrian lived in a studio lent by his friend near the Montparnasse Rail Station by painter Conrad. It was while in Paris in 1911-14 it was in the middle of the artistic revolution and the artistic talent influencing him and the central to this all was the Cubist movement. Before this he submitted a painting ‘Sun’ to Salon des Independent and in Holland had the pointillist Fauve techniques and eventually with an exhibition in 1911 it gave an insight into Mondrians knowledge in French paintings before his arrival to his studio. It was then the Cubist works by Schelfhout was shown and Mondrians paintings responded to Cubist practice and that was via Cezanne who had been the core of this exhibition with 28 paintings. It

But with this movement it influenced Mondrian with his fashion statement giving himself a cleaner Urban look with a shaved beard, short hair and groomed style which also changed his style of art by designing two paintings of women where it was then it showed the new change in his style influenced heavily by his time in Paris. While keeping his Evolution background with this new Cubist influence it helped develop new techniques with new images such as Nude. So with the tension between the designs of 1910 and the era of Cubism it became almost resolved by Mondrian with this new strategy with redebut of his potent images in his earlier work. Although Cubism had influenced Mondrian in a lot of ways with the simplifying of his work it hadn’t changed the themes, but it was influential with his new view in art and that’s to minimize everything and with his view being ‘the great step toward