Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)

Piet Mondrian’s artistic qualities embody the pursuit of the “absolute” through the continuous development of relativity.

Born in the Netherlands, Mondrian led a movement called De Stiyl, a “movement style,” aiming to reconcile the discoveries of Cubism with a more comprehensive aesthetic of the machine age for all art, whether fine or functional.

He visited Paris twice, abandoning the representative theme of “pure new plastic space representation,” and then “developed abstraction towards its ultimate goal of expressing pure reality,” he explained, which resulted in paintings with horizontal and vertical intersections. These paintings are painted in a wide range of right angles on a brilliant, uniform base color.

In 1940, he arrived in the vibrant, fast-paced modern city of New York, which inspired his “Boogie Woogie” series, created with a dynamic rhythm. His art has profoundly influenced architecture and interior design.

As a “laborer” in artistic creation, he produced not only numerous paintings but also many prints, ceramics, sculptures, and tape works.

By winning the Grand Prix for Graphics at the Venice Biennale, he joined the club, moved his white sculpture “Sunbird” to his studio, and hung on the wall a painting reserved for David Fenandez Miró and the constellation “Poetess” (1940). A self-portrait appears outside the window. He is busy designing prints with a self-portrait behind him.