Pete Mondrian Biography

Father could not provide a family, but his son was treated with sensitivity, and at 20, Mondrian went to study in Amsterdam [1]. He began a drawing teacher in elementary school, early works - the landscapes of Holland in the spirit of impressionism a. He became interested in the theosophy of Elena Blavatsky. He deeply took the searches of Cubism and at the exhibition of cubists in Amsterdam he moved to Paris, as a sign of the beginning of a new life he changed his surname to Mondrian.

He spent the years of the First World War in his homeland, became close to the artist Theo Van Dusburg, founded the “style” movement with him and the art magazine of the same name. The magazine became the body of non -plasticism A - utopia of new plastic culture as ultimate consciousness in the scrupulous transmission of generalized beauty and truth with the most ascetic means, basic, primary colorful tones, lines, and forms.

In the American period of his work, he tried to adapt the principles of neoplasticism to convey the dynamic effects of “Bugi-Wuhi on Broadway” [en] [2]. He died of inflammation of the lungs on February 1 and was buried in the Cypress Hills [en] cemetery in New York Brooklyn E [3]. The design of the New York Studio of Mondrian, in which he worked for only a few months and which was carefully recreated by his friends and followers in the photo and film, was, as it were, the last work of the master, these “stenophores” were shown at exhibitions in New York, London E, Tokyo, San Paulo, Berlin Apartment of Mondrian, his tube and glasses They are captured in minimalist photographs of Andre Kertes, who became embleming for modern photography.

The creativity of Thumb Left PX composition with red, blue and yellow. Starting from the year, Mondrian's paintings developed towards abstract matrices consisting of black horizontal and vertical lines. Gradually, the location of the lines on the canvas was streamlined to such an extent that they began to represent the right grilles with cells [5]. The cells were painted up with primary colors, that is, red, blue and yellow.

Thus, the structure of the picture was formed by dichotomy color-non-flow, vertical-horizontal, large surface-a small surface, the unity of which should symbolize the balance of forces in the harmony of the universe [4]. Despite the marginal limitations of visual means, Mondrian's work had a great influence on contemporaries and gave rise to new directions in painting and graphics.

Selected works.