In his mature paintings, he used the simplest combinations of straight lines, right angles, primary colors, and black, white, and gray. Mondrian was an artist who lived during the late 19th early 20th century. With its rectilinear forms made up of solid, outlined areas of color, the work reflects the artists experimentation. He evolved a nonrepresentational form which he termed neoplasticism. Netherlands piet mondrian s signature later style red, blue and yellow rectangles embedded within a black grid surfaces. Following the certain degree of the abstraction within the postimpressionist artworks, piet mondrian was interested in geometrical abstraction and the use of primary colors red, yellow. This was the new pure plastic art which he believed was necessary in order to create universal beauty. Artists and designers in the netherlands such as piet mondrian and theo. Following the certain degree of the abstraction within the postimpressionist artworks, piet mondrian was interested in geometrical. Stijl a presentation bymuskaan rajput priyanshu prajapati anas saif aman kashyap. Founder by architect theo van doesburg was joined by two other prominent artists in making the movement famous and successful, namely gerrit reitveld and piet mondrian. He became one of the leading advocists of the art movement. The artistic philosophy that formed a basis for the groups work is known as. To express this, mondrian eventually decided to limit his formal.
When he was 68, piet mondrian arrived in new york, having fled nazioccupied europe. Organized in leiden in 1917, the painters piet mondrian and theo van doesburg and the architects jacobus johannes pieter oud and gerrit thomas rietveld were counted among. It was meant to be a platform for artists interested in the new style, and promoted artists such as piet mondrian. In 1905, he concluded that beauty does not lie in the subject or in what a painting may represent, but in the way in which shapes and colours produce a pictorial plasticity that may be beautiful to the eye of the beholder. Articulated by mondrian in 191718, the approach stipulates the strict use of only horizontal and vertical lines and the primary colors red, yellow, and blue. With this, modernism encroached on societal boundaries. In his mature paintings, he used the simplest combinations of straight lines, right angles, primary colors, and. Piet mondrian 1872 1944 art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody. He coined the term neoplasticism to describe this style characterized by rigid lines and primary colors. Kim grant piet mondrian, composition with blue, red, yellow, and black, 1922, oil on canvas, 41. By 1920, he adopts a totally abstract motif, with an irregular checkerboard drawn with black lines, and with. This lack of clarity in abstract art lends itself well to creating art for the blind. One of the few true fathers of pictorial abstraction, piet mondrian was a dutch painter who devised a way of depicting form that avoids any references to the real world and relies completely on the use of primary colors and their directions, leaving the entire world of modern art in his debt.