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Fan account of Pieter Mondrian, a Dutch painter and theoretician regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. 1872-1944 Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social

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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 1h

Trafalgar Square https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/trafalgar-square-1943

Trafalgar Square

Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 7h

Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Gray and Blue https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/composition-with-large-red-plane-yellow-black-gray-and-blue-1921

Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Gray and Blue

Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 9h

Lozenge Composition with Red, Black,Blue and Yellow https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/lozenge-composition-with-red-black-blue-and-yellow-1925

Lozenge Composition with Red, Black,Blue and Yellow

Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 1d

Farm Setting, Three Tall Trees in the Foreground https://collections.artsmia.org/art/3780/

Piet Mondrian is famous for his paintings of irregular black grids on white backgrounds interspersed with rectangles in bright primary colors. Less familiar are the landscapes from earlier in his career. Mondrian began Farm Setting with a pencil, searching for pleasing rhythms and contours in the slender trees and the slant of the farmhouse roof. He varied his pastel application, seemingly working from background to foreground. Delicate strokes in the sky and the hazy tops of distant trees give way to broad middle- and foreground lines made with the sides of his dark pastel crayons. He then worked up details such as cows, fences, and buildings with firm precision. Caked-on colors impart solid mass to the buildings and the stumpy willow. Horizontal strokes of lighter colors animate the middle ground, while vertical and diagonal strokes give the foreground the appearance of long grasses dotted with wildflowers. His final touches to the outlines and branches of the tall trees fix the compositional grid in perfect balance and harmony. Hindsight reveals the gridlike Farm Setting as a forerunner of the stark compositions of Mondrian’s maturity, but his road to such Platonic ideals still lay ahead.

Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 1d

Composition in White, Black, and Red http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78310

Gift of the Advisory Committee

Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 1d

Devotion https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/devotion-1908

Devotion

Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 2d

Composition No. III Blanc-Jaune https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/composition-no-iii-blanc-jaune-1942

Composition No. III Blanc-Jaune

Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 2d

Pier and Ocean 5 (Sea and Starry Sky) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/33419

Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund

Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 2d

Farmstead https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/296855

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Contemporary Art Fund and Gift of Allan Stone, Class of 1954

© Mondrian/Holtzman Trust

Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 3d

On the Lappenbrink https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/on-the-lappenbrink

On the Lappenbrink

Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 3d

The Red Mill https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/the-red-mill-1911

The Red Mill

Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 3d

Mill in the evening https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/mill-in-the-evening-1905

Mill in the evening

Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 4d

Evolution https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/evolution-1911

Evolution

Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 4d

Composition in Color A https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/composition-in-color-a-1917

Composition in Color A

Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 4d

Farm Sun https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/farm-sun

Farm Sun

Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 5d

Lighthouse in Westkapelle https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/lighthouse-in-westkapelle-1909

Lighthouse in Westkapelle

Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 5d

Composition No.10 https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/composition-no-10-1942

Composition No.10

Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 5d

Lily https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/lily

Lily

Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 6d

Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow http://www.moma.org/collection/works/80160

The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection

Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 6d

Composition with Blue https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/composition-with-blue-1937

Composition with Blue

Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 6d

Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray https://www.artic.edu/artworks/109819/

Although Piet Mondrian’s abstractions may seem far removed from nature, his basic vision was rooted in landscape, especially the flat geography of his native Holland. Beginning with his early naturalistic landscapes, he reduced natural forms to their simplest linear and colored equivalents to suggest their unity and order. Eventually he eliminated such forms altogether, developing a pure visual language of verticals, horizontals, and primary colors that he believed expressed universal forces.
In Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray Mondrian rotated a square canvas to create a dynamic relationship between the rectilinear composition and the diagonal lines of the edges of the canvas. Deceptively simple, his works are the result of constant adjustment to achieve absolute balance and harmony, and they reveal an exacting attention to the subtle relations between lines, shapes, and colors. The artist hoped that his paintings would point the way to a utopian future. This goal was first formulated in Holland around 1916–17 by Mondrian and a small group of like-minded artists and architects who collectively referred to their aesthetic as De Stijl (The Style). Their ideas have been extraordinarily influential for all aspects of modern design, from architecture and fashion to household objects.

Gift of Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.

Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 7d

Along the Amstel https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/along-the-amstel-1903

Along the Amstel

Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 7d

Composition III with Blue, Yellow and White https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/composition-iii-with-blue-yellow-and-white-1936

Composition III with Blue, Yellow and White

Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 7d

Composition with Red, Blue, Black, Yellow, and Gray http://www.moma.org/collection/works/79002

Gift of John L. Senior, Jr.

Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 8d

Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/composition-with-red-yellow-and-blue-1922

Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue