100 Great Artists

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1872

1892 _ 94

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1908

1909

1911

1912

1917

1919

1914

19J8

1940

PIET MONDRlAN

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a kOOma,,"

Srudi" jiM art a'

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pri=, from Ani"

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i.,aml f"!;ntilli"

and IIm"IT

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an ",lorry

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Cllh'iniJrn

En"",,,u» Cubi"m

11' ... bibiti"" in

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On Hi,kr'djrr,,/

'tkg""YIlU art'

Mo,." to Lall;'m.

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and Nrol",,,

s"r/" in N".,

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j)j" of p"",,",,,,ill

in N"" );"-J:

interior (1919) by Th ... " ,'an D"".hurg

An arcbiuctul7ll '"(JIM in D< Srij! rry/<, ,bo,;:;ng

mllrhd rimimri"" ,;:i,b MarolFi,",', prindph

if o.rign

P

iet '\\ondr;an ,,"11l~ (". " a dCl'oUl

C al,-in;" family of k<..::n l",interS and

musicians. Rut their rCI"cssi,'c

discipline led to his reject inn of a steady an

Strandcd in Holland h).' World War L

,\ Iondrian ~nd Tht"O Van Dnesburg

(18S3_1931) fnrm"l • group .nd pub~s""d •

map,in<: eall<:d iJ< Stij/(The S,},le). The writer

'eaehing car<"r in f.",ur of the ~rti,t's lilt: itself, Schot"Tlm.cler's ide .. of 'pc"iti,'e ",}'stiei,,,,'

and Ia "'r stiD, n, his ",,,brJee ofT h<'<''''I'''y.

T his mj'<tical bclic:f sy''''m _ in humani,ys

eV(~utinn t[),,~ "Is spiritu.1 unity_""'" 1.'1",1" in

,he \ \'i:st a' ,he ,~"e, not It"''' .. mngst the

pinnttt. of .Ilstraet .n, K~r>rlin!lly .nd

M~I",ich. ,\londri.n'. mCount<:t with Cub;;",

in 1911 ""'S ,he eritical I,oint of his .rti"ie

den:I'1.""'''' whm he relm,,,d n'''m,1 forms

fmm his IMen"i.1 """,I",I.ry. 'I"gether with

Tht"", ,,,}', it 1 "",dl,,1 him into the "nLS of the

" 'an"ga"k The nt.;cure Dutchm.n left f,,,

P.ris, ,he first s"'p ""''''rds ~ n in,,::m.,innal life

,hat wnuld ha"e a lasting in'l"'ct nn western .n.

... ere directly inc"'por.,ed ~nd ,\l()fldri.n·s

.esthe,ic became ,heir guiding forCt:,

"""mi""l to putif}'ing ",,)<I.:r n art .nd

llringing it to eH:r)'nn<: ,i. archi"'cture, pmduct

design .nd 'Jl,ogr:t I"'y.

Tne ,'el)' «Tm, Neo·Plasticism, ,h.,

,\lnndrian ",Iop,cd for his geometric

.b"NCtinn!l in 19!1, .. 'as bnrn,w,,1 from

Sehn<:n" .. cker. \ \r,th his ')'1'.,.1 as}""mt~ric~1

"rlngemCJltS of squares and rectangles p.in,,,1

in l" i""'I)' ",lours <~,'i<l.:d h).' blad b.nds nn a

... hite gmund, ,\londri.n S'mle ~"

'rlnscmdmtal ""peri""Ct: and pun: h",mny.