Author: Susanne Deicher
Publisher: Taschen
ISBN: 9783836553308
Binding: hardcover
Pages: 96
Format: 21 x 26 cm
English language.
A key figure in the international avant-garde movement, Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was an extraordinary painter and at the same time a prominent art theorist whose influence has not diminished one bit with the passage of time. After coining the term neoplasticism, he focused on painting composed solely of primary colours superimposed on a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and a white background.
For Mondrian, this basic painting would help forge a society in which art as such would have no place, but would exist only for the full materialization of “beauty.” He spent time in Amsterdam, Paris, London, and New York, drawing inspiration from both the modern metropolis and modern music, especially jazz. In 1917, he co-founded De Stijl, which began as a publication and later developed into a circle of devotees committed to a strict geometric art of horizontal and vertical lines. Through key works and concise texts, this introductory book presents Mondrian’s distinctive and pioneering oeuvre, which has inspired fashion, art, architecture, and design, from the White Stripes’ record covers to Yves Saint Laurent’s dresses.
