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Piet Mondrian: tableau with large red plane, blue, black, light green and greyish blue, 1921.(All Levels: Looking and Learning)
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About the Artist
Piet Mondrian pioneered an abstract art of distilled structure based on ideas of harmonic perfection. Mondrian grew up in a small town in the Netherlands, the son of a school teacher. His development as an artist was a long search. His early work--notable for landscapes--is realistic and somber in character. The art became increasingly abstract even though Mondrian's subjects were drawn from the natural world. Eventually, he developed a style that was completely abstract, with no links to realistic motifs.
As an adult, Mondrian lived on and ...
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