Piet Mondrian fled the Netherlands to make art in Paris, London and New York. He was drawn to the excitement of urban life ...

In his early career, in Amsterdam, Mondrian made easily salable paintings to survive while slowly narrowing down and simplifying his own work, especially in his stark paintings of chrysanthemums. His ...

Piet Mondrian’s impact on his contemporaries was nicely summed up by the English painter Ben Nicholson, who was baffled at first by Mondrian’s paintings but amazed and exhilarated by the ...

As the title “Hommage à Mondrian” already suggests, this work manifests Calder’s lifelong admiration for Piet Mondrian, whom ...

In "Espectro en Rojo," a geometric grouping of color and shape fills the composition. Interspersed among the boxy shapes are stylized elements that appear figural, reminiscent of ancient form.

Beatriz Milhazes emerged as a significant figure in the Geração 80, a movement of Brazilian artists that gained prominence in the 1980s. This era marked Brazil's transition from military dictatorship ...

They are among the very most famous artworks left to us by the twentieth century: Piet Mondrian’s geometric canvases, white backgrounds overlaid with spare, uneven black lines, set off by a few ...

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Recent biographies of three iconic artists -- Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian and Alexander Calder -- paint a far more nuanced picture. Their lives suggest that while hardship may shape an artist's ...

In Mondrian’s case, his mischievous Uncle Frits, played a decisive role in steering the young artist towards worship at a different altar. Frits worked part-time in the family store, in The ...

The works currently collected by MoMA in New York city total 27 in all, including pairings by Frida Kahlo, Henri Matisse, Georgia O’Keefe, Vincent Van Gogh, Piet Mondrian, Claude Monet ...