Piet Mondrian – Composition II In Red, Blue And Yellow, 1930/2015, Fine Art Print based on the 1930 oil and paper on convas painting, original size: 59,5 cm x 59,5 cm by Piet Mondrian, edition of 300, numbered en verso, 60 x 60 cm, handmade Original Hahnemühle Fineart Paper-Print, Publisher Edition Nolden/H, Paris. Price € 1.200.- Order here!
About this Artwork
Piet Mondrian’s rigorously geometric paintings in primary colors are icons of the 20th century that had a powerful impact on popular taste in art and design. Composition with Red Blue and Yellow is a work reflecting the Dutch “De Stijl” (The Style) movement. The canvas uses only the simplest of colors: red, blue, yellow, white and black. The composition is similarly reduced to the simplest of rectilinear forms, squares and rectangles defined by vertical and horizontal lines. One would hardly suspect that we are seeing the artist’s determination to depict the underlying structure of reality. His use of the term “composition” (the organization of forms on the canvas) signals his experimentation with abstract arrangements. This painting demonstrates his commitment to relational opposites, asymmetry, and pure planes of color. Mondrian composed this painting as a harmony of contrasts that signify both balance and the tension of dynamic forces. He viewed his black lines not as outlines but as planes of pigment in their own right; an idea seen in the horizontal black plane on the lower right of the painting that stops just short of the canvas edge.
About the Artist
Piet Mondrian was born Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, Jr., on March 7, 1872, in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. He studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, from 1892 to 1897. Until 1908, when he began to take annual trips to Domburg in Zeeland, Mondrian’s work was naturalistic—incorporating successive on influences of academic landscape and still-life painting, Dutch Impressionism, and Symbolism. In 1909 a major exhibition of his work (with that of Jan Sluijters and Cornelis Spoor) was held at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and that same year he joined the Theosophic Society. In 1909 and 1910 he experimented with Pointillism and by 1911 had begun to work in a Cubist mode. After seeing original Cubist works by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso at the firstModerne Kunstkringexhibition in 1911 in Amsterdam, Mondrian decided to move to Paris. There, from 1912 to 1914, he began to develop an independent abstract style.
Mondrian was visiting the Netherlands when World War I broke out and prevented his return to Paris. During the war years in Holland, he further reduced his colors and geometric shapes and formulated his nonobjective Neoplastic style. In 1917 Mondrian became one of the founders of De Stijl. This group, which included Theo van Doesburg, Bart van der Leck, and Georges Vantongerloo, extended its principles of abstraction and simplification beyond painting and sculpture to architecture and graphic and industrial design. Mondrian’s essays on abstract art were published in the periodicalDe Stijl. In July 1919 he returned to Paris; there he exhibited with De Stijlin 1923, but withdrew from the group after van Doesburg reintroduced diagonal elements into his work around 1925. In 1930, Mondrian showed with Cercle et Carré (Circle and Square) and in 1931 joined Abstraction-Création.
World War II forced Mondrian to move to London in 1938 and then to settle in New York in October 1940. In New York he joined American Abstract Artists and continued to publish texts on Neoplasticism. His late style evolved significantly in response to the city. In 1942 his first solo show took place at the Valentine Dudensing Gallery, New York. Mondrian died February 1, 1944, in New York.
Piet Mondrian Composition with Yellow Black Red and Gray, 1921/2016, Fine Art Print based on the 1930 oil and paper on convas painting, original size: 60 cm x 60 cm by Piet Mondrian, edition 0f 300, numbered en verso, 60 x 60 cm, handmade Original Hahnemühle Fineart Paper-Print, Publisher Art Galerie Nolden/H, Paris. Price € 1.200.- Order here!
Piet Mondrian, Composition with Red, Blue and Gray, 1927/ 2017, Fine Art Print based on the 1930 oil and paper on convas painting, original size: 60 cm x 60 cm by Piet Mondrian, edition 0f 300, numbered en verso, 60 x 60 cm, handmade Original Hahnemühle Fineart Paper-Print, Publisher Art Galerie Nolden/H, Paris. Price € 1.200.- Order here!
Piet Mondrian, Composition No 3 with Red, Blue and Yellow, 1929/ 2018, Fine Art Print based on the 1930 oil and paper on convas painting, original size: 61 cm x 61 cm by Piet Mondrian, edition 0f 300, numbered en verso, 60 x 60 cm, handmade Original Hahnemühle Fineart Paper-Print, Publisher Art Galerie Nolden/H, Paris. Price € 1.200.- Order here!
