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Piet Mondrian
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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
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Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow http://www.moma.org/collection/works/80160
The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection
January 18, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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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.
January 18, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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Self Portrait https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/self-portrait-1918
Self Portrait
January 18, 2026 at 8:24 AM
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The Red Mill https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/the-red-mill-1911
The Red Mill
January 17, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/mondrian-composition-with-yellow-blue-and-red-t00648
Purchased 1964
January 17, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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Composition in Color A https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/composition-in-color-a-1917
Composition in Color A
January 17, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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Chrysanthemum https://collections.artsmia.org/art/3181/
white flower against brown background 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 still lives and landscapes from earlier in his career. "Chrysanthemum" of 1900 reveals his early taste for naturalism inherited from the Hague School but ultimately indebted to the influence of the French Barbizon painters. In an autobiographical essay, Mondrian confessed: "I was always a realist . . . I always enjoyed painting flowers, not bouquets, but a single flower at a time." This austere presentation of the chrysanthemum is nonetheless innovative. Mondrian would renew his interest in flower painting again around 1908, but he substituted the natural brownish palette used here for a brighter, more artificial one.
January 16, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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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.
January 16, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/composition-with-red-blue-and-yellow-1930
Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow
January 16, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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Dune Landscape https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/dune-landscape-1911
Dune Landscape
January 15, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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Truncated View of the Broekzijder Mill on the Gein, Wings Facing West http://www.moma.org/collection/works/79256
Purchase
January 15, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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Composition No.10 https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/composition-no-10-1942
Composition No.10
January 15, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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Girl Writing https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/girl-writing-1895
Girl Writing
January 14, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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Gable Farm with trees https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/gable-farm-with-trees
Gable Farm with trees
January 14, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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Farm at Duivendrecht https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/farm-at-duivendrecht
Farm at Duivendrecht
January 14, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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Sun, Church in Zeeland; Zoutelande Church Facade http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/mondrian-sun-church-in-zeeland-zoutelande-church-facade-t07328
Purchased with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Kreitman Foundation, the Art Fund and the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1997
January 13, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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Geinrust Farm, Compositional Study https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/geinrust-farm-compositional-study-1906
Geinrust Farm, Compositional Study
January 13, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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Composition with Blue, Red, Yellow, and Black https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1595/
Geometric motifs with red yellow black and blue Like many artists living in Paris in 1912, Piet Mondrian experimented with Cubism—depicting a subject from multiple viewpoints at once, often creating a fractured and disjointed image. After returning to Holland in 1914, he developed his own brand of abstraction, reducing natural forms to simplified geometric patterns. Unlike the Cubists, Mondrian eventually abandoned recognizable subjects even as a starting point, adopting instead a rational and intellectual style that he called Neo-Plasticism.
January 13, 2026 at 9:39 AM
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Devotion https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/devotion-1908
Devotion
January 12, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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Anemones in a Vase https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/anemones-in-a-vase
Anemones in a Vase
January 12, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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Vertical Composition with Blue and White https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/vertical-composition-with-blue-and-white-1936
Vertical Composition with Blue and White
January 12, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/composition-with-red-blue-and-yellow-1930
Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow
January 11, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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View from the Dunes with Beach and Piers https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/view-from-the-dunes-with-beach-and-piers-1909
View from the Dunes with Beach and Piers
January 11, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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Dune Landscape https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/dune-landscape-1911
Dune Landscape
January 11, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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Composition B (No.II) with Red http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/mondrian-composition-b-noii-with-red-t07560
Accepted by HM Government in lieu of tax with additional payment (General Funds) made with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Art Fund, the Friends of the Tate Gallery and the Dr V.J. Daniel Bequest 1999.
January 10, 2026 at 7:32 PM