Piet Mondri History And Background Of The Artist Or Architect

Piet Mondrian

Sina Yaraghi

Hum 1020

MWF 9:00-9:50

1. The biography and background of the artist or architect

• Biography o Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan who was a Dutch painter was born on March 7th, 1872 in Amersfoort, Netherlands. o Piet was introduced to art at the young age of 14 as his father was a drawing teacher. He was also influenced by his Uncle Fritz Mondriann who was in the art field and belonged to the Hauge School and was a landscape painter. o In 1892 Mondrian enrolled in the Academy for fine arts in Amsterdam. o Piet was determined to become an artist since a young age. o Mondrian was a theorist, writer, and artist. o Famous for being one of the founders and creators of the “De Stijl” movements. o Piet Mondriaan passed away on February 1st, 1944 in New York.

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One example of this is his painting called “Lozenge Composition with Four Yellow lines” (1933) which was a simple painting that only contained 4 yellow lines on a white canvas. This painting really defined the idea of pure abstraction and the reduction to only the essential form and color and simplified the painting.

• For Piet’s 50th birthday his friends organize an exhibition in the Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam. The purpose of the exhibition was to showcase his work from the beginning of his career as a painter and show the progressions as the years went by. This is what was said: o “It was a retrospective progression of his paintings, tracing the path from his beginnings in the Dutch traditional style to his abstract paintings, firmly establishing the artist’s pivotal role in the international art world’s move toward abstraction. He had reached his goal, but he did not stand still: he continued to explore the relationship between lines and blocks of color, achieving an ever-increasing purity in his paintings.”