Mondrian

A key figure in international avant-gardism, Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was an extraordinary painter and at the same time a leading art theorist whose influence has not diminished one iota with the passage of time. After coining the term Neo-Plasticism, he focused on painting composed solely of primary colours superimposed on a grid of black, vertical and horizontal 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 total materialisation of "beauty". He spent periods in Amsterdam, Paris, London and New York, and used both the modern metropolis and modern music, especially jazz, as inspiration. In 1917, he co-founded De Stijl, which began as a publication and later became a circle of followers, committed to a strict geometric art of horizontal and vertical lines.

Through key works and concise texts, this introductory book presents Mondrian's groundbreaking work, a source of inspiration for fashion, art, architecture and design, from the record covers of the White Stripes to the dresses of Yves Saint Laurent.

• Pages: 96
• Language: Spanish
• Author: Susanne Deicher
• Year: 2020
• MODEL: 9783836553285

Publisher: Taschen