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.

References

• Schapiro, Mondrian: On the Humanity of Abstract Painting (George Braziller 1995).
• Bax, Marty. Complete Mondrian. Hampshire: Lund Humphries, 2001.
• Faerna, José María, ed. Mondrian: Great Modern Masters. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995.
• Joosten, Joop J. and Welsh, Robert P. Piet Mondrian: Catalogue Raisonné. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998.
• Mondrian, Piet, Harry Holtzman, ed., and Martin S. James, ed. The New Art ? The New Life: The Collected Writings of Piet Mondrian. New York: Da Capo Press, 1993.