Celebrating Mondrian's journey from Dutch landscape painter to pioneer of lively, hard-edged abstraction
Published on the occasion of the Dutch artist’s 150th birthday, Mondrian Evolution celebrates the multifaceted work and artistic development of Piet Mondrian. The artist cemented his place in the art historical canon with his geometric compositions characterized by black lines cast against white surfaces partially filled by the primary colors blue, red and yellow. Indelible as they are, these compositions comprise only a portion of Mondrian’s expansive oeuvre. The artist moved through various formal evolutions, corresponding to his various geographical residences, before he arrived at his signature minimalist abstract style. After his classical training in figurative painting, Mondrian departed for Paris, where he immersed himself in the avant-garde currents energizing the city; Cubism, in particular, stimulated his imagination. Taking the movement as a point of departure, Mondrian developed Neo-Plasticism, a nonrepresentational “pure plastic art,” which he believed to be the pathway to universal beauty.
This monograph diligently traces the artist’s progression from landscape painter to abstractionist trailblazer―and all the stops in between. Each chapter homes in on a specific motif within Mondrian’s oeuvre, including windmills, dunes, the sea, farms reflected in the water and plants in various forms of abstraction.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Piet Mondrian had a decisive influence on the development of painting from figuration to abstraction. On the occasion of his 150th birthday, Mondrian Evolution is dedicated to his multifaceted work and artistic development. Initially working in the tradition of Dutch landscape painting of the late 19th century, Symbolism and Cubism subsequently took on great significance for him. It was not until the early 1920s that the artist focused on a wholly non-representational pictorial vocabulary, limited to the rectangular arrangement of black lines with surfaces in white and the primary colors blue, red and yellow. In separate chapters, this path is traced through motifs such as windmills, dunes, and the sea, farms reflected in the water, and plants in various forms of abstraction. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9783775752374
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Paperback. Condition: New. Piet Mondrian had a decisive influence on the development of painting from figuration to abstraction. On the occasion of his 150th birthday, Mondrian Evolution is dedicated to his multifaceted work and artistic development. Initially working in the tradition of Dutch landscape painting of the late 19th century, Symbolism and Cubism subsequently took on great significance for him. It was not until the early 1920s that the artist focused on a wholly non-representational pictorial vocabulary, limited to the rectangular arrangement of black lines with surfaces in white and the primary colors blue, red and yellow. In separate chapters, this path is traced through motifs such as windmills, dunes, and the sea, farms reflected in the water, and plants in various forms of abstraction. Seller Inventory # LU-9783775752374
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Sehr gut. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Ungelesenes, vollständiges Exemplar; in sehr gutem Zustand, leichte Lagerspuren, als Mängelexemplar gekennzeichnet -Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) war einer der Pioniere der abstrakten Kunst. Der aus einer streng calvinistischen Familie stammende Künstler wurde berühmt für seine Kompositionen aus schwarzen Linien und rechteckigen Feldern in Primärfarben, doch seine frühen Werke waren von der niederländischen Landschaftsmalerei des 19. Jahrhunderts beeinflusst. Piet Mondrian hatte einen entscheidenden Einfluss auf die Entwicklung der Malerei von der Figuration zur Abstraktion. Anlässlich seines 150. Geburtstags widmet sich »Mondrian. Evolution« seinem facettenreichen Werk und seiner künstlerischen Entwicklung. Zunächst arbeitete er in der Tradition der niederländischen Landschaftsmalerei des späten 19. Jahrhunderts, später gewannen Symbolismus und Kubismus für ihn große Bedeutung. Erst in den frühen 1920er Jahren konzentrierte sich der Künstler auf eine gänzlich nicht-gegenständliche Bildsprache, die sich auf die rechteckige Anordnung schwarzer Linien mit Flächen in Weiß und den Primärfarben Blau, Rot und Gelb fokussierte. In einzelnen Kapiteln wird dieser Weg anhand von Motiven wie Windmühlen, Dünen, dem Meer, sich im Wasser spiegelnden Bauernhöfen und Pflanzen in verschiedenen Formen der Abstraktion nachgezeichnet. (Text engl.) 263 pp. Englisch. Seller Inventory # 7127316
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