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Marking the 150th anniversary of the artist’s birth, the Fondation Beyeler will devote an exhibition to the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. As one of the most important artists of the avant-garde movement, Mondrian shaped the evolution of painting from figuration to abstraction. His early work was influenced not only by late 19th century Dutch landscape painting but also by Symbolism and Cubism. It was only in the early 1920s that he began concentrating on a wholly non-representational pictorial vocabulary consisting solely of rectilinear arrangements of black lines on a white background and the three primary colours blue, red and yellow.
While the collection of the Fondation Beyeler focuses primarily on works from the later phases of Mondrian’s career, the exhibition will look at his development as an artist up to the 1920s and the stylistic genesis of his later work. Separate sections will deal with motifs such as windmills, dunes and seascapes, the farmstead reflected in water and plants in various states of abstraction.
“Mondrian” is organised jointly by the Fondation Beyeler and K20, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf.
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Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (he later changed his name to Mondrian) was born on 7 March 1872 in Amersfoort in the Netherlands. After training as a drawing instructor and studying art in Amsterdam, he worked as an art teacher, scientific draughtsman and portraitist. With traditional landscape painting as his starting point, he developed an expressive, chromatically vivid style. In 1912, he moved to Paris. His encounter with Cubism led to a series of non-figurative paintings in muted colours. Mondrian spent World War I in the Netherlands, where he continued probing the possibilities of abstraction with both figurative and nonfigurative forms. In 1917, he was one of the founding members of the art movement “De Stijl”. Upon his return to Paris in 1919, he focused on abstract compositions featuring rectangles, black lines, white and the primary colours yellow, red and blue. After a few intermediate years in London, in 1940 Mondrian emigrated to New York, where he began experimenting with coloured lines. Mondrian died on 1 February 1944 in New York
Exhibition Catalogue
Mondrian Evolution
Piet Mondrian had a decisive influence on the development of painting from figuration to abstraction. On the occasion of his 150th birthday, Mondrian Evolution is dedicated to his multifaceted work and his artistic development. The exhibition catalogue was designed by the Dutch typographer and book designer Irma Boom.
Art Edition - Irma Boom
Mondriaan & Mondrian
The Art Edition Mondriaan & Mondrian was designed by Irma Boom exclusively for the Fondation Beyeler and shows two overlapping portraits of Piet Mondrian. By using different materials, formats and colours, her designs become a visual experience. The prints are available in an edition of 50, numbered and hand signed.
Art Print
Piet Mondrian
Each work of art is an original which is part of what makes it so special. The disadvantage, however, is that the work cannot be in several places at once. As a way of allowing us to look at paintings outside as well as inside the museum, the Fondation Beyeler creates high-quality fine art prints of selected works printed on high-quality papers.
In the exhibition will witness how Piet Mondrian (1872–1944), one of modernism’s most famous artists, morphed from landscape painter to avant-gardist and pioneer of abstract art.
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