Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian (March 7, 1872 – February 1, 1944) was a Dutch painter and an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg. Despite being well-known, often-parodied, and even trivialized, Mondrian's paintings exhibit a complexity that belie their apparent simplicity. He is best known for his non-representational paintings (which he called compositions), consisting of rectangular forms of red, yellow, blue, or black, separated by thick, black, rectilinear lines. They are the result of a stylistic evolution that occurred over the course of nearly thirty years, and which continued beyond that point to the end of his life.

Major works

• (1908) Molen (Mill); Mill in Sunlight
• (1908) Avond (Evening); Red Tree
• (1908) Chrysanthemum http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/pd--10083376/Large_Chrysanthemum_c_1908.htm
• (1908) Evening, Red Tree
• (1908) Windmill by the Water
• (1909) Landscape
• (1909-10) The Red Tree
• (1910) Amaryllis
• (1910-11) Evolution
• (1910-11) The Red Mill http://www.soho-art.com/cgi-bin/shop/shop.pl?fid=1044454597&cgifunction=form
• (1911) Gray Tree
• (1911) Horizontal Tree
• (1911) Still Life with Ginger Pot I http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_work_lg_112_9.html -- cubist
• (1912) Still Life with Ginger Pot II http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_work_lg_112_11.html -- simplified
• (1912) Apple Tree in Bloom
• (1912-1913) Trees
• (1912-1914) Scaffoldings
• (1913) Composition No. II; Composition in Line and Color
• (1915) Ocean 5 http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/mods/philosophy/se43251-6/se4325-6/sld016.htm
• (1917) Composition III with Color Planes
• (1918) Composition with Color Planes and Gray Lines 1
• (1918) Composition with Gray and Light Brown
• (1919) Composition with Grid VII
• (1919)
• (1920)
• (1920) Composition with Black, Red, Gray, Yellow, and Blue http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/mondrian/mondrian_composition_a.jpg.html
• (1921) Tableau I
• (1921) Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray
• (1921) Composition with Large Blue Plane, Red, Black, Yellow, and Gray
• (1921) Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue
• (1922) Composition with Blue, Yellow, Black, and Red
• (1922) Composition #2
• (1925) Lozenge Composition with Red, Black, Blue, and Yellow
• (1925) Lozenge Composition with Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow, and Black http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/mondrian/mondrian_lozenge.jpg.html
• (1927) Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue
• (1929) Fox Trot; Lozenge Composition with Three Black Lines
• (1930) Composition with Yellow Patch
• (1930) Composition with Yellow
• (1932) Composition with Blue and Yellow
• (1935-42) Composition No. III Blanc-Jaune
• (1935-42) Rhythm of Straight Lines http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/mondrian/studies/du3.html
• (1935-42) Rhythm of Black Lines
• (1936) Composition blanc, rouge et jaune or Composition in White, Black and Red
• (1936) Vertical Composition with Blue and White
• (1937-42) Abstraction
• (1939-42) Composition No. 8
• (1939-42) Painting #9
• (1939-1942) Composition No. 10
• (1942) New York City I
• (1942-43) Broadway Boogie-Woogie http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=78682
• (1943) Place de la Concorde http://www.inter-art.com/en/10491.htm
• (1943-44) Victory Boogie-Woogie http://www.outlawnet.com/~thissen/mondriaan.htm