Description: PietMondrian.com is a tribute to Piet Mondrian, the Dutch abstract painter famous for his drawings of cubes and lines. This site contains a store and shop, as well as many links of interest.
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)
Born into a Dutch aristocratic family in Amersfoort, Piet Mondrian began his study of art in 1892 as a student at Amsterdam's Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. His earliest landscapes are rendered in an Impressionistic style but, possess the marked vertical and horizontal tendencies that foreshadow his mature paintings. Mondrian's work began to show the influences of Cubism in 1910 after an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam that included works by Picasso and Braque. [ read more... ]
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