Piet Mondrian

Joop M. Joosten

Hans Janssen

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Yve-Alain Bois

Kunstmuseum (La Haye, Pays-Bas).

Angelica Zander Rudenstine

Although Mondrian is generally recognized for his powerful influence on twentieth-century art, architecture and design, his achievement as a painter has been underestimated. This comprehensive monograph traces Mondrian's career, from his early Dutch landscapes at the turn of the century to the dazzlingly rhythmic compositions he painted in New York at the end of his life. In this volume, his identity as a modern artist is addressed in detail. While the continuity within his entire evolution is fully explored, particular attention is paid to moments of dramatic change: his discovery of modernism and later of cubism; his struggle toward abstraction; his invention of the "neoplastic" style for which he is best known; and his dynamic development of that style from the 1930s until the end of his career. An emphasis on Mondrian's pictorial development also involves an emphasis on his working process. While this volume stresses the modernity of Mondrian's work, it demonstrates, especially in its presentation of his unfinished works, that Mondrian's abstract art was far from mathematical, either in its origins or in its expression; rather, it was the product of a highly intuitive mind and hand, gradually working toward carefully modulated but far from measurable compositional solutions. In the present volume, the texture and autograph surface of each work are taken into account, and Mondrian's original framing decisions have been recorded and reproduced, often for the first time. Yve-Alain Bois's major essay on the artist's career focuses especially on the invention and development of Mondrian's neoplastic style. In examining the parallel evolution of the artist's theory and his art, Bois supports the painter's own rejection of any interpretation of his abstract work as either geometric or symbolic, and demonstrates that far from constituting a formal exercise, neoplasticism offered an entirely new articulation of painting and thought. Bois pays particular attention to the late work and to the ways in which the artist conceived it as a critique of his earlier achievements. Hans Janssen explores the relationship between theory and practice in Mondrian's neoplasticism. From the early landscapes and throughout the mature career, he sees a fundamental continuity in the role of the symbolic. The fully illustrated Chronology of the artist's life and work and the Catalogue by Joop Joosten and Angelica Z. Rudenstine contain much new documentation, as well as extensive and largely unpublished quotations from Mondrian's correspondence with his contemporaries.

Mondrian

Michael White

"In the early 1920s, a group of Dutch artists and architects influenced by some of the ideas of Dada, formed a movement called De Stijl (The Style). The Story of De Stijl presents work by Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, Gerrit Rietveld, and the other members of this influential group, as well as archival photographs of the artists. The authors - experts in this seminal abstract style that encompassed painting, sculpture, architecture, interior design, and more - explore the evolution of the movement not just through traditional art-historical analysis, but also through anecdotes, conversations, articles, and other contemporary sources. With more than 325 colour illustrations, The Story of De Stijl makes clear the lasting importance and influence of this once avant-garde movement"-- Publicaciones Arquitectura y Arte.

Mondrian to Van Doesburg

The Story of De Stijl

Praktische handreiking voor ouders waarin de gewone opvoedingsvragen een antwoord krijgen. De uitgangspunten zijn: Ieder kind, ieder mens, heeft behoefte aan duidelijkheid en iedere ouder brengt in de opvoeding zijn eigen karakter en geestelijke bagage mee. Aan de hand van een korte uitleg over regels, het belang van het stellen van grenzen en vooral van het belang van het omgaan met die grenzen, worden praktische adviezen gegeven voor concrete opvoedingssituaties.

Kinderen vragen om duidelijkheid

Klaus Albrecht Schröder

Jeder kennt Piet Mondrians berühmte >Kompositionen in Rot, Blau und Gelb, die heute sogar zum Markenzeichen einer Haarpflegeserie geworden sind. Zu Beginn der 20er Jahre bereitete er als Begründer der Künstlerbewegung De Stijl

The Flemish painter Jean Brusselmans (1884-1953) was a contemporary of artists such as Constant Permeke and Gustave De Smet. He began his artistic career at the height of Flemish Expressionism, but he was far more than a pure Expressionist. His ultimate goal was to reveal the harmonic order of things in his paintings. Brusselmans' oeuvre cannot easily be pigeonholed into one category or another. He was always searching for a refined, authentic art, for the correct proportions and for the perfect balance between figuration and abstraction. This catalogue is published to coincide with a major exhibition by Jean Brusselmans. The exhibition focuses on the period 1931-1949, in which Brusselmans developed a highly personal style and idiom.00Exhibition: Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands (17.02.-10.06.2018).

Jean Brusselmans

Maarten R. van Bommel

An arresting piece in his signature primary color palette, The Victory Boogie Woogie is the final work by abstract painter Piet Mondrian (1872–1944). An important contributor to the De Stijl movement, Mondrian died before he could finish the painting, leaving swathes of unpainted canvas and many unanswered questions behind. Inside Out Victory Boogie Woogie is a pioneering study that carefully considers every aspect of the piece, from the tiniest detail in the physical painting to the minutiae of its conservation history. Through the methodical examination of this singular painting, the editors are able to offer a detailed and nuanced portrait of the artist himself and the rest of his oeuvre. From an exploration of Mondrian's inspiration for the piece, to the sale of The Victory Boogie Woogie to the Dutch government in 1998 for nearly forty million dollars, which made it the most expensive painting ever bought in the Netherlands, this rich volume is a fully comprehensive history and analysis of what many consider one of the masterpieces of twentieth century abstract art.

Inside Out Victory Boogie Woogie

Weinig kunstenaars hebben zichzelf zo vaak opnieuw uitgevonden als Piet Mondriaan (1872-1944). Van realistische landschappen tot aan zijn wereldberoemde geometrische abstractie, volbracht Mondriaan een ware ontdekkingstocht door de moderne kunst. Met een onbegrensde nieuwsgierigheid naar het nieuwe, omarmde hij het dynamische leven in Amsterdam, Parijs, Londen en New York en vertaalde dit in zijn schilderijen. 00Dit nieuwe boek volgt Mondriaans leven en werk aan de hand van de Mondriaancollectie van het Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Met ruim 300 werken is dit de grootste collectie ter wereld, die iedere fase van Mondriaans indrukwekkende loopbaan bestrijkt. Van de vroege avontuurlijke landschappen die hij schildert in en om Amsterdam en Domburg, langs de fundamentele abstractie die hij ontdekt in Laren en Parijs, helemaal tot aan New York waar hij een radicaal nieuw ritme ontdekt dat zijn laatste meesterwerk Victory Boogie Woogie (1942-1944) definieert. Deze rijk geïllustreerde publicatie laat u kennismaken met een van de modernste kunstenaars van de twintigste eeuw.

Hans Janssen

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