Essays Tagged: "Piet Mondrian"

Piet Mondrian

"Broadway Boogie Woogie" by Piet Mondrian is the culminating achievement of his New York Period. Broadway Boogie Woogie was one ... . The exhibit traced the evolution of Mondrian's artistic career and its many changes.The exhibit, "Piet Mondrian: 1872-1944" was the first major show to to study his career leading up to and through ... ow were his sketches, many works in progress, and a recreation of his final studio in New York City.Piet Mondrian was born in Amersfoort , Holland in 1872 and started to study art a very early age. At ...

(4 pages) 181 0 4.6 Feb/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Piet Mondrian.

Piet Mondrian was born Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, Jr. in Amersfoort the Netherlands, March 7, 1872. ... oup in 1925 when another member of the group reintroduced diagonal elements into his work. In 1930, Piet exhibited with Cercle et Carre and in 1931 he joined Abstraction-Creation.Mondrian was forced t ... ber of his works are preserved in the Gemeente Museum in The Hague.SOURCES:Irwin, David. "Mondrian, Piet" 2002 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. New York City: Grolier Interactive, Inc., 2001. CD-ROM.P ...

(2 pages) 61 0 4.4 May/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Formalism first pops its head onto the scene with Georges Braque and Picasso.

piet mondriangeorges braquealexander calderI.FORMALISM.Formalism first pops its head onto the scene ... aint the essence of his point of departure, rather than the literal image.Around the end of Cubism, Piet Mondrian also latches on to the formalist theories of form as content. Beginning by studying Cu ...

(3 pages) 70 0 4.8 Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Art Modernism Essay. A structured essay on how Modernist Painters looked at the world in a new way.

ir materials and paintings. This is a style common to Wassily Kandinsky of the Blue Rider Group and Piet Mondrian. And then there exploded a vast array of other modernism movements.Other than the Blue ... formulation of art. He had a great concentration of form and was inflexible in his painting ideals. Piet Mondrian was also a prominent Neo-plasticist.Dadaism In Zurich in 1917, the Dadaists produced t ...

(19 pages) 321 0 4.7 Jun/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Piet Mondrian

HISTORICAL BACKGROUNDPiet Mondrian was born Pieter Cornelias Mondrian Jr. in the Netherlands in 1872 and studied at an ar ... would then re-exhibit the work with a new title and a double date.STRUCTURAL ANALYSISComposition by Piet Mondrian is composed of a simple black grid pattern interspersed with vivid sections of primary ...

(4 pages) 44 0 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

De-Stijl

om 1917 to 1931. The founder, Theo van Doesburg started a group which was an association of painter Piet Mondrian, Bart van der Leck, and Vilmos Huszar, the architect Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud, the ... artists continued carrying out the principles of De Stijl, but individually in stead of as a group.Piet MondrianPiet Mondrian was born on 7 March, 1872, at Amersfoort, Holland. He showed an art talen ...

(9 pages) 62 0 4.5 Jun/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Mark Rothko and Mysticism.

f abstract art, the Russian painters Wassily Kandinsky and Kasimir Malevitch, and the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, were strongly influenced by the religious mysticism of theosophy. The abstract cross- ... leading the cosmos from dualism to unity, and the religious symmetry underlying the material world.Piet Mondrian, Composition A, 1923Oil on canvas (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, ...

(3 pages) 67 0 4.6 Oct/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

What was modern about De Stijl?

luence of the expressionist abstract paintings that Kandinsky was producing in Munich up until 1914.Piet Mondrian was the oldest in the group and came from Cubist influences and Impressionist influenc ... in Scheveningen in Holland.Mondrian's composition's paintings are typical of the movement De Stijl.Piet MondrianComposition No. II; Composition in Line and ColourPiet MondrianComposition with large b ...

(8 pages) 38 0 3.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

Essay on modernism including cubism and expressionism

ir materials and paintings. This is a style common to Wassily Kandinsky of the Blue Rider Group and Piet Mondrian. And then there exploded a vast array of other modernism movements.Other than the Blue ... formulation of art. He had a great concentration of form and was inflexible in his painting ideals. Piet Mondrian was also a prominent Neo-plasticist.Dadaism In Zurich in 1917, the Dadaists produced t ...

(18 pages) 154 0 3.2 Jul/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Design Arts

Mondrian vs Wesselmann

Tom Wesselmann's GreatAmerican Nude vs Piet Mondrian's Composition in White, Black, and Red I found that out of all the nudes pictured in t ... ace, I believe, it would be more difficult for that same soldier to take a life. At least I hope so.Piet Mondrian painted Composition in White, Black, and Red, in response to a horrific time in Hollan ... etestation of being dominated? Does it represent evil forces trying to encroach upon others? I like Piet Mondrian's Composition in White, Black and Red because of its simplicity in color, only three, ...

(5 pages) 2659 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

The Cultural Context Of Rebellious Silence and Home Décor

ious Silence', which boasts sparseness.In the background of 'Home Décor' are two patterns by Piet Mondrian, the first is 'Composition With Grid 3' and the second 'New York City'. Basically, Ben ... line, hinting at the opposite of what is mentioned - that the world is still divided. The works by Piet Mondrian (the background) are symmetrical - this could imply that the world is divided but the ...

(3 pages) 25 0 4.0 Sep/2009

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art