biography
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Mondrian, Piet
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originally Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan
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pronunciation:
[mondrian]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1872–1944)
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| biography:
| Artist, born in Amersfoort, C Netherlands. One of the founders of the De Stijl movement, he began by painting landscapes in a traditional sombre Dutch manner, but after moving to Paris in 1909 he came under the influence of Matisse and Cubism. He then began painting still-lifes, becoming increasingly abstract. During World War 1 he concentrated on rectilinear compositions which depend for their beauty on the simple relationships between the coloured areas. His work has been a major influence on all purely abstract painters, and he is considered the leader of Neoplasticism. |
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