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Piet Mondrian - Composition with Red, Yellow and BlueComposition with Red, Yellow and BluePiet Mondrian

Discover the masterpiece of Neoplasticism Art Movement

Piet Mondrian's 'Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue' is a prime example of the Neoplasticism art movement, also known as De Stijl. This Dutch art movement, founded in 1917 by Theo van Doesburg, advocated pure abstraction and unive...

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Piet Mondrian - Composition No. 1 with Grey and Red 1938 / Composition with Red 1939Composition No. 1 with Grey and Red 1938 / Composition with Red 1939Piet Mondrian

From 1938 to 1940 Piet Mondrian, who had fled wartime Paris, was established in London near his friends Naum Gabo, Barbara Hepworth, and Ben Nicholson. During this period he continued working in the highly reductivist Neo-Plastic mode he had developed in France, in which horizontal and vertical blac...

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, United States)
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Piet Mondrian - Composition No.10Composition No.10Piet Mondrian

In Composition Number 10, Mondrian had reached the full development of his neo-plastic, non-representational form. Many of his paintings contained the basic elements of an interlocking grid of black lines and blocks of the three primary colors. Although the elements were few, he changed the structur...

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Piet Mondrian - Broadway Boogie WoogieBroadway Boogie WoogiePiet Mondrian

Discover the fascinating world of abstract art with Broadway Boogie Woogie, a masterpiece by Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. This iconic painting is an exceptional representation of Neoplasticism, also known as...

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Piet Mondrian - New York City 2
[unfinished, formerly New York City III]New York City 2 [unfinished, formerly New York City III]Piet Mondrian

Mondrian developed this grid with commercial adhesive tape. Clues such as clusters of pushpin holes, pencil outlines, and unpainted patches show how the artist adjusted the composition over time, paying special attention to how the bands overlapped. The fact that he had already begun to replace tape...

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Piet Mondrian - AbstractionAbstractionPiet Mondrian

The austerely abstract style of Mondrian’s grid paintings restricts itself to straight horizontal and vertical lines, and the rectangular shapes resulting from their crossing; their palette is simply black, white, and the primaries: red, yellow, and blue. The artist’s intuitive arrangement of these ...

Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, United States)
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Joan Miró - Blue IIBlue IIJoan Miró

Introduction to the Artist

Joan Miró (1893-1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist who is best known for his contributions to Surrealism. Born in Barcelona, Spain, Miró began his artistic career ...

 
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Pablo Picasso - Seated woman in gardenSeated woman in gardenPablo Picasso

Different details suggest different sources in the outside world, but pride of place is accorded to the spider's web. The figure of Dora Maar here looks like a real spider's web for anyone to miss the allusion, or the sinister warning of fatality it entailed. The women themselves - predators or prey...

 

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