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Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan was born on 7 march 1872 in Amersfoort, Holland.
Due to his fathers illness, Mondriaan had to move back to Holland in 1914 and because of the beginning of the first World War, Mondriaan was forced to stay.
Mondriaan was impressed by Theo van Doesburg and his ideas, but did not decide to become member of the alliance till 1916, when he met Bart van der Leck.
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  Piet Mondrian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born at Amersfoort in The Netherlands as Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, he began his career as a teacher in primary education, but while teaching he also practiced painting.
Mondriaan's art was always intimately related to his spiritual and philosophical studies.
Mondriaan and his later work were deeply influenced by the Moderne Kunstkring exhibition of Cubism held in Amsterdam in 1911.
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 Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan biography - S9.com
1872 - Pieter Cornelis (Piet) Mondriaan, born on the 7th of March at Amersfoort and trained at the Amsterdam Academy.
He first followed the naturalism of the Haguc school but awareness of new tendencies and also an interest in Theosophy led him to become more selective from among the form's before him and the colors on his palette.
In his new paintings, Cubism becomes a means of structuring and of recording degrees of visibility in observing buildings and trees.
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 Mondriaan, Piet Mondriaan the first modern painter, Domburg
Mondriaan the famous Dutch, modern painter of the 20 century.
Piet Mondriaan was born Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, Jr., on March 7, 1872, in Amersfoort, the Netherlands.
In 1909, a major exhibition of his work (with that of Jan Sluyters and Cornelis Spoor) was held at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and that same year he joined the Theosophic Society.
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Mondriaan the famous Dutch, modern painter of the 20 century.
Piet Mondrian was born Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, Jr., on March 7, 1872, in Amersfoort, the Netherlands.
In 1909, a major exhibition of his work (with that of Jan Sluyters and Cornelis Spoor) was held at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and that same year he joined the Theosophic Society.
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Mondriaan lived and worked in Amsterdam, The Hague, Paris and New York.
In the last years of his life Mondriaan worked on a painting that would become his most famous work of art: "Victory Boogie Woogie".
Mondriaan, born in Holland, changed the spelling of his name to Mondrian (one "a") when he arrived in Paris, and that's how he is known by art historians, especially when it comes to his late work.
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The logo of the BPM 2003 conference is based on the painting 'Tableau II' of the Dutch painter Mondriaan.
In the course of the years, an impressive collection has been built, which includes works Mondriaan.
Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (1872-1944) has become famous for his geometric-abstract paintings in primary colors.
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Born in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, on March 7, 1872, and originally named Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, Mondrian embarked on an artistic career over...
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 Piet Mondrian Biography and Summary
The Dutch painter Pieter Cornelis Mondrian (1872-1944) created a geometrical abstract style known as neoplasticism, which had widespread influence on modern painting, architecture, and design.
Piet Mondrian was born on March 7, 1872, in Amersfoort.
Pieter Cornelis (Piet) Mondriaan, after 1912 Mondrian, (pronounced: Pete Moan-dree-on)(March 7, 1872 – February 1, 1944) was a Dutch painter and an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg.
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Born at Amersfoort in The Netherlands, Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan,, usually known as Piet Mondrian, was a Dutch painter, and an important contributor of the De Stijl art movement, which was founded by...
Born at Amersfoort in The Netherlands, Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, (March 7, 1872 - February 1, 1944), usually known as Piet Mondrian, was a Dutch painter, and an important contributor of the De Stijl art movement, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg.
He began his career as a teacher in primary education, but while teaching he also practiced painting.
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Van Stry painted interiors and genre scenes in the style of Gabriel Metsu and Pieter de Hooch, and his landscapes reveal a close study of Cuyp.
This early work was painted by Mondriaan long before he became famous for his abstract paintings.
Soon Mondriaan would cease to include in his work any hint of a space that is 'almost real'.
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 MSN Encarta - Piet Mondrian
Through radical simplification of composition and color, he sought to expose the basic principles that underlie all appearances.
Born in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, on March 7, 1872, and originally named Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, Mondrian embarked on an artistic career over his family's objections, studying at the Amsterdam Academy of Fine Arts.
His early works, through 1907, were calm landscapes painted in delicate grays, mauves, and dark greens.
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Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, (March 7, 1872 - 1944), usually known as Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter, and founder of the De Stijl art movement.
Mondriaan was born at Amersfoort in The Netherlands.
His career started as a teacher but while he taught, he himself was studying painting.
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 Piet Mondrian Biography (1872–1944) (originally Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan) Online Encyclopedia Article About Piet ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Piet Mondrian Biography (1872–1944) (originally Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan)
One of the founders of the De Stijl movement, he began by painting landscapes in a traditional sombre Dutch manner, but after moving to Paris in 1909 he came under the influence of Matisse and Cubism.
His work has been a major influence on all purely abstract painters, and he is considered the leader of Neoplasticism.
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 Suphawut.com: Visual Art & Graphic Design: Modern Art: Piet Mondrian
Neoplasticism is the theory and practice of the de Stijl group, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to fl, white, and the primary colors.
Born in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, on March 7, 1872, n้ Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, Mondrian embarked on an artistic career over his family's objections, studying at the Amsterdam Academy of Fine Arts.
It rejected all representation and restricted the elements of artistic expression to the use of straight lines, right angles, pure primary colors (blue, red, and yellow), and the so-called non-colors of fl, gray, and white.
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 ArtLex on De Stijl
Pure Painting, 1920, oil on canvas, 130 x 80.5 cm, Georges Pompidou Center, Paris.
Theo van Doesburg and Cornelis van Eesteren (Dutch), Contra-Construction, an
Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud, architect and delineator (Dutch, 1890-1963), House for Three Families, 1928, axonometric projection in ink and pencil on tracing paper, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA. Oud worked in the style that evolved from De Stijl called the International Style.
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