The power of line PIET MONDRIAN
Piet Mondrian was born in Holland in 1872. He was influenced by many artistic styles. Mondrian's first paintings were painted in a style similar to impressionism. The red tree, 1908
Then his style changed and he was interested in cubism. He moved to Paris and his paintings were more abstract. The flowering apple tree, 1912
Composition I with red and blue, 1931
When he returned home, Mondrian and some friends created a new art movement, De Stijl or neoplasticism.
They painted with black straight lines, rectangles, squares and primary colours
Composition No. II,1920
Composition with red, yellow and blue, 1942
He was living in London.
Composition London,1940
Trafalgar Square,1939
New York city I
He lived in New York and the black lines were changed for crossed lines.
Broadway boogie-woogie,1942
Mondrian died in 1944
“All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means we are only line and color. � Piet Mondrian