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Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was one of the pioneers of abstract art in the twentieth century. His was a plastic art, in which every curve. spatial illusion, every affect of the brush --anything that recalled the techniques of impressionism --was rejected. His painting pursued "relationship," the necessarily two-dimensional meeting of line and line in a ninety degree angle, though he imbued this planar relationship with an asymmetric vitality....
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A visual narrative of the artist's life and work, told primarily through reproductions of his art and supplementary documentary images presented in chronological order. Contains five short critical and biographical texts. Includes a section reproducing Mondrian's known works in small black-and-white illustrations with brief captions.
"Piet Mondrian's rigorously geometric paintings in primary colors are icons of the 20th century that had a powerful...
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"Complete Mondrian is an accessible visual companion to the complete work of Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), one of the most important figures in the development of abstract art." "Drawing on the Mondrian catalogue raisonni, the book reproduces all of Mondrian's works in a single volume, with key caption information. The organisation of the illustrations into major chronological periods gives the reader an immediate visual impression of the development...
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The work of Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) marked a turning point in the history of modern painting. Initially influenced by Cubism, Mondrian invented an original universal language of geometric shapes and primary colors in the early 1920s and he was one of the pioneers of pure abstraction, an innovative trend that strongly influenced 20th century art. Filmed in the exact replica of his Paris studio, this docu-fiction retraces Mondrian's...
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Following a brief period of decline, the entrepreneurial and industrious region of the Low Countries rose again to become a cultural leader in the modern age. Despite its small and almost insignificant size it produced important forward-thinking artists like Van Gogh, Mondrian, Magritte, and Delvaux, who changed the face of art forever. Andrew's journey takes him to a remote beach in north west Holland that inspired Mondrian's transition to his now-renowned...
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"In this survey of the origins and development of abstraction in twentieth-century painting John Golding, himself a noted painter, teacher and art historian, analyzes the ambitions and careers of seven major artists, each of whom 'had been inspired by the fact that he was on the path to some new, ultimate pictorial truth or certainty, to a visual absolute'." "In his discussion of each artist the author has chosen key works to illustrate a visual progression...
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