Piet Mondrian

Harry Holtzman

Martin S. James

When the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) made his first ventures into the realm of nonrepresentational art, he could hardly have imagined the impact his vision would have on twentieth-century art, architecture, and design. Internationally recognized as the leading pioneer of abstract art, the founder of Neo-Plasticism, and the ideological father of the De Stijl movement, Mondrian embodied the spirit of modernism. His unmistakable grids and angular compositions expressed his desire for order and clarity amid the chaos of industrial civilization. This comprehensive collection of his essays, letters, notes, and interviews is arranged chronologically from Mondrian's earliest De Stijl essays up to an interview conducted shortly before his death. The texts are complemented with a chronology, an intimate memoir by his close friend Harry Holtzman, an essay on Mondrian's early writings by Martin S. James, a selective bibliography, and 254 reproductions of Mondrian's paintings, works, by his contemporaries, and photographs of the artist, his family, and friends. The New Art –The New Life is the definitive source for understanding the underlying principles of Mondrian's art and life. Revealed in these writings is the self-denial, discipline, and patience of a man who modified the way we perceive the world.

The Collected Writings of Piet Mondrian

The New Art--the New Life

Internationally recognized as a pioneer of abstract art, the founder of Neo-Plasticism, and the ideological father of the De Stijl movement, Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) created both paintings and writings that embodied the spirit of modernism.

An Essay in Trialogue Form

Natural Reality and Abstract Reality

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

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

Carpenter & Hochman Gallery (New York, N.Y.)

The Wall Works, 1943-44

Robert P. Welsh

Art Gallery of Toronto

Piet Mondrian, 1872-1944

A Piet Mondrian Daybook

Twee verhalen

Louis Jacob Florus Wijsenbeek

Mondrian in New York

Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) emptied Cubism of its representational content, dissembling its angular contours into a few floating horizontal lines and reconstructing it anew as irregular squares of primary color. Mondrian dubbed the abstract style at which he arrived Neoplasticism, a term that eventually became synonymous with De Stijl, the Dutch avant-garde group composed of artists Theo van Doesburg, Bart van der Leck and Vilmos Huszar and the architects Gerrit Rietveld, Robert van 't Hoff and J.J.P. Oud, as well as Mondrian himself. More influential and foundational than any other design ethos of the early twentieth century, De Stijl provided the basis for much of the Bauhaus aesthetic, as well as Concrete art and the architecture of Mies van der Rohe. Collectively, the movement can be said to have translated Mondrian's pure painting into applied design for clothing, furniture (most famously Rietveld's Red and Blue chair), interiors, houses, blocks of flats and even whole towns. This volume looks at the full arc of Mondrian's evolution, from his early works executed in Neoimpressionist and Luminist idioms to his arrival at a pure Neoplastic abstraction, and traces De Stijl's extrapolations of Mondrian's art into a multidisciplinary utopian design project.

Mondrian, De Stijl : Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München

Karsten Schubert

Focusing on a prolific stage in Piet Mondrian's early career, this volume provides a concise view of the artist's figurative landscape painting.Primarily made during his time in Amsterdam at the turn of the century, Mondrian's dense, small-scale paintings

Painting 1900-1905

Early Mondrian

Hans L.C. Jaffe

An illustrated study of the life and career of Dutch painter Piet Mondrian.

Masters of Art

Tate Gallery

Bridget Riley

Haags Gemeentemuseum

The Mondrian collection in the Gemeentenmuseum is particularly strong on the early works, when the artist painted in the style of the Hague school. Mondrian's style changed dramatically in his forties, after his encounter between 1908 and 1911 with van Gogh, Pointillism and then Cubism.

Nature to Abstraction : from the Gemeentemuseum, the Hague

Boudewijn Bakker

Marty Bax

Amsterdam (Netherlands). Gemeentearchief

The Amsterdam Years, 1892-1912

Piet Mondriaan

One of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, Dutch painter Piet Mondrian profoundly influenced the development of abstract painting and sculpture. Features more than 1,800 illustrations, including 375 plates in full color.

from Sketchbooks 1909-1914

Kunstmuseum Bern

Ausstellung : Kunstmuseum Bern, 9.2-9.4., 1972

Piet Mondrian 1872-1944

Piet Mondrian

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