When the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872?1944) made his first ventures into the realm of nonrepresentational art, he could hardly have imagined the impact his vision would have on twentieth-century art, architecture, and design. Internationally recognized as the leading pioneer of abstract art, the founder of Neo-Plasticism, and the ideological father of the De Stijl movement, Mondrian embodied the spirit of modernism. His unmistakable grids and angular compositions expressed his desire for order and clarity amid the chaos of industrial civilization. This comprehensive collection of his essays, letters, notes, and interviews is arranged chronologically from Mondrian's earliest De Stijl essays up to an interview conducted shortly before his death. The texts are complemented with a chronology, an intimate memoir by his close friend Harry Holtzman, an essay on Mondrian's early writings by Martin S. James, a selective bibliography, and 254 reproductions of Mondrian's paintings, works, by his contemporaries, and photographs of the artist, his family, and friends. The New Art ?The New Life is the definitive source for understanding the underlying principles of Mondrian's art and life. Revealed in these writings is the self-denial, discipline, and patience of a man who modified the way we perceive the world.

The New Art, the New Life: The Collected Writings of Piet Mondrian (DOCUMENTS OF TWENTIETH CENTURY ART)

Literature & Fiction

Mondrian, Piet

Holtzman, Harry

James, Martin S.

Essays & Correspondence

Twayne Pub

Internationally recognized as a pioneer of abstract art, the founder of Neo-Plasticism, and the ideological father of the De Stijl movement, Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) created both paintings and writings that embodied the spirit of modernism.Mondrian saw himself as an arch-Modernist with uncompromisingly strong ideas about what art was to be about in the next century. He viewed abstraction as the ideal artistic and spiritual direction, and argued this cause in his most important text, "Natural Reality and Abstract Reality." Written in Holland at the outset of 1919 and completed in Paris in July of that year, Mondrian's Trialogue carefully presents the artist's ideas through the voices of A Layman, A Naturalist Painter, and An Abstract-Real Painter. Abstraction contains, Mondrian proposes, the essence of what art of all the ages sought to express - relationship, harmony, repose, life force, the universal. In the Trialogue, Mondrian demonstrates the basis of his new art form in visible reality.This volume also contains Mondrian's "two urban sketches" entitled "Les Grands Boulevards" and "Little Restaurant - Palm Sunday," which form ideal literary complements to the Trialogue.

Natural Reality and Abstract Reality: An Essay in Trialogue Form (1919-1920)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

George Braziller

Internationally recognized as a pioneer of abstract art, the founder of Neo-Plasticism, and the ideological father of the De Stijl movement, Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) created both paintings and writings that embodied the spirit of modernism. Mondrian saw himself as an arch-Modernist with uncompromisingly strong ideas about what art was to be about in the next century. He viewed abstraction as the ideal artistic and spiritual direction, and argued this cause in his most important text, "Natural Reality and Abstract Reality." Written in Holland at the outset of 1919 and completed in Paris in July of that year, Mondrian's Trialogue carefully presents the artist's ideas through the voices of A Layman, A Naturalist Painter, and An Abstract-Real Painter. Abstraction contains, Mondrian proposes, the essence of what art of all the ages sought to express - relationship, harmony, repose, life force, the universal. In the Trialogue, Mondrian demonstrates the basis of his new art form in visible reality. This volume also contains Mondrian's "two urban sketches" entitled "Les Grands Boulevards" and "Little Restaurant - Palm Sunday, " which form ideal literary complements to the Trialogue.

Natural Reality and Abstract Reality: An Essay in Trialogue Form/1919-1920

Piet Mondrian (The Library of Great Painters. Portfolio Ed)

Hunter, Sam.

Individual Artists

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Catalogo di mostra, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut 18 ottobre - 2 dicembre 1979. Prefazione di Alan Shestack. Testo di Nancy J. Troy. Illustrazioni in bianco e nero di opere di Ilya Bolotowsky, Burgoyne Diller, Fritz Glarner, Harry Holtzman, Piet Mondrian, Leon Polk Smith, Charmion Von Wiegand. Materiale supplementare con testi degli artisti. Testo in inglese . 4to pp. 64 Brossura (wrappers) Molto Buono (Very Good)

Mondrian and Neo-Plasticism in America

Troy, Nancy J.

Yale University Art Gallery

Arthur Schwartz Sales Co

Product Description Send your best wishes with the beautifully reproduced artwork on these full-color Piet Mondrian QuickNotes notecards, packaged in a sleek reusable box with magnetic snap closure. Piet Mondrian QuickNotes notecards includes 4 classic art designs for a fun take on stationery. Our QuickNotes are perfect to keep on hand for any occasion notes and greetings to friends and family. Our on-trend designs and high print quality make our cards the best value out there. We choose the best images from well-known classic and contemporary fine artists as well as talented up-and-coming illustrators and designers from around the globe. 20 notecards and envelopes, 5 each of 4 images. Packaged in a sleek, sturdy flip-top box with magnetic closure. Cards printed on coated paper stock to bring out their full color. Cards and envelopes bundled together with a paper belly band inside each box. About the Author Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was a painter from Amersfoort, Netherlands. Along with Theo van Doesburg, he was a founding member of the Dutch art movement, De stijl, and the main theorist behind Neoplasticism, which sought to express the principles of pure abstraction through non-representation art--as defined by flat, non-dimensional space, bold primary colors, and geometric lines.

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Piet Mondrian 1872-1944: Structures in Space

Deicher, Susanne

Taschen America, LLC

The early decades of the 20th century saw unprecedented cooperation between the performing and visual arts. Painters and other visual artists working in a variety of avant-garde styles, such as Cubism, Surrealism, Dadaism, Constructivism, and Futurism, worked in the world of theater and dance throughout Europe, creating masterpieces inspired by the explosion of creativity in the performing arts, from the ballets of Diaghilev and Balanchine to the plays of the Russian Meierkhol'd and Futurists such as Marinetti, and operas by the likes of Wagner and Offenbach. It was this burst of integration that led to the formulation of the idea of the "Total Art Creation," (a term coined by Wagner), and enriched both the theater and the visual arts. This handsome volume, published on the occasion of a major exhibition at the Reina Sophia Museum in Madrid, examines these avant-garde experiments in fusion between the arts with extensive color illustrations by virtually every major painter of the period: artists like Picasso, Kandinsky, Leger, and others, as well as in-depth essays on several of the performing art forms and the ways they involved visual artists in their production.

Painters In The Theater Of The European Avant-Garde

Matisse, Henri

KANDINSKY, WASSILY

LISSITZKY, El

DERAIN, André

GROSZ, George

MIRÓ, JOAN

Picabia, Francis

De Chirico, Giorgio

Michaud, Éric

Rodchenko, Alexander

Malevich, Kasimir

Léger, Fernand

PICASSO, Pablo

Gris, Juan

Garafola, Linn

Paz, Marga

Editorial Palacios y Museos

"After several years, my work unconsciously began to deviate more and more from the natural aspects of reality. Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the work of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone. . . . I forsook natural color for pure color. I had come to feel that the colors of nature cannot be reproduced on canvas. Instinctively, I felt that painting had to find a new way to express the beauty of nature."—Piet Mondrian 
Piet Mondrian is one of the most recognizable artists of the 20th century. His grid paintings, beginning in 1920 (when he was nearly 50) are perhaps the most iconic statement of the modernist aesthetic. But preceding these paintings stands a career of nearly 30 years during which Mondrian evolved from a painter of atmospheric landscapes and embarked on a distinctive path towards abstraction. This book focuses exclusively on the process of Mondrian finding his abstract style, analyzing in depth the disparate influences upon him—aesthetic, historical, intellectual, and spiritual—in the years up to 1914.

Mondrian 1892-1914: The Path to Abstraction

Janssen, Hans

Kimbell Art Museum

Musee, D'Orsay

Joosten, Joop M.

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