The Artwork of

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The Artwork of

• Piet Mondrian

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Piet Mondrian

• Piet Modrian was a Dutch artist who changed the
  way many people think about art.
• Mondrian was introduced to art at an early age by
  his father who was a drawing teacher.

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Red Tree, 1908

• Mondrian was influenced by another Dutch artist
  Vincent Van Gogh.
• In his painting Red Tree (above), Mondrian used
  similar brush strokes as created by Van Gogh in
  his Olive Trees painting from 1889 (below).

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Blue Tree, 1911

• In 1911, Mondrian moved to Paris.
• He continued to paint trees but the paintings
  became increasingly abstract.

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Gray Tree, 1911

• Pablo Picasso was another artist who had a big
  impact on Mondrian.
• Picassos influential cubist paintings like the
  Woman with Mandolin painted in 1909 (above) can
  be seen in Mondrians Gray Tree (below).

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The Blossoming Apple Tree, 1912

• In abstract art, little or no attempt is made to
  represent images realistically, and objects are
  often simplified or distorted.

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The Blooming Apple Tree, 1912

• In the previous image The Blossoming Apple Tree
  and in this one The Blooming Apple Tree, the
  realistic image of the tree has disappeared and
  only the idea of the colors, shapes, and lines of
  the tree are illustrated.

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Composition No. II Composition in Line and Color
, 1913

• The idea of nature and trees still influenced
  these abstract paintings.

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Composition 8, 1914

• Mondrian began to use geometric rectangles and
  squares to make grid paintings like these using
  what are known as Earth Tones.

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Composition 10 in Black White, 1914

• Colors with elements of browns, tans and grays
  are examples of Earth Tones.

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Composition with Gray and Light Brown, 1918

• Earth Tones resemble those colors found in
  nature.

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Gray Lines, 1918

• In this early painting Mondrian uses are gray
  lines that tend to fade.

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Composition A Composition with Black, Red, Gray,
Yellow, and Blue, 1920

• This painting also uses gray color and nearly all
  of them are colored only a few are left white.

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Tableau II, 1921

• The word Tableau is French for Table

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Composition with Blue, Yellow, Black, and Red,
1922
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Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue, 1927
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Composition with Blue 1935
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Broadway Boogie Woogie 1942-1943