Whose Birthday Is It? March 7, 2016

Pieter Cornelis “Piet” Mondrian (1872)

Mondrian was a Dutch painter whose workforeshadowed the rise of abstract art in the1940s and 1950s. He went to Paris in 1910where he developed his geometric,nonobjective style, which he calledneoplasticism. It is characterized by theelimination of sensuality from artwork and the restriction ofpictorial language to its most basic elements—the straight line,primary colors, and the neutrals of black, white, and gray. Alongwith Theo van Doesburg, Mondrian was a leader of what artmovement? More…