Piet Mondrian

Pays-Bas · Sur la carte · Artistes · 1872 - 1944 · 71 ans

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Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, appelé Piet Mondrian à partir de 1912, né le 7 mars 1872 à Amersfoort (Pays-Bas) et mort le 1er février 1944 à New York, est un peintre néerlandais reconnu comme l'un des pionniers de l'abstraction.

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1944Décès1er février 19441911“You can so wonderfully be yourself here [in Paris].”Ses propres motsQuote of Mondrian from his postcard to a Dutch girlfriend, Paris 1911 (written in his first week in Paris), by Mondrian's recent biographerLire toute la déclaration

1910“He [ Jan Toorop, an older and famous Dutch religious painter] sees the Catholic faith as A.”Ses propres motsoctobre 1910Quote in Mondrian's letter to , Domburg octobre 1910; Van Ginneken and Joosten, op. cit. (note 26), pp. 263; as cited in Mondrian, - TheLire toute la déclaration

“Masculine and feminime, vertical and horizontal.”Ses propres motsQuote, written note beneath a drawing in Mondrian's sketchbook, 1910/11; as cited in: Abstract Painting, Michel Seuphor, Dell PublishingLire toute la déclaration

1909“With that work [Mondrian is referring to his figurative painting 'Devotion' he painted in 1908, of a devotedly looking girl] I only envisaged a girl conceived devotedly..”Ses propres mots23 octobre 1909Quote of Mondrian, in a letter to Israel Querido, Summer of 1909; published in the weekly magazine 'De Controleur' 23 Oct, 1909; as citedLire toute la déclaration

“For the present at least [1909] I shall restrict my work to the ordinary world of the senses, since that is the world in which we still live.”Ses propres mots23 octobre 1909Quote from Mondrian's letter to Israel Querido, Summer of 1909; published in the weekly magazine 'De Controleur' 23 Oct, 1909; as cited inLire toute la déclaration

1890“When I first saw the work of the Impressionists, Van Gogh, Van Dongen and the Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.”Ses propres motsQuote of Mondrian about his 1890' years; in 'Mondrian, Essays' ('Plastic art and pure plastic art', 1937 and his other essays, (1941-1943)Lire toute la déclaration

1872Naissance7 mars 1872

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Piet Mondrian

4 déclarations, les plus récentes d'abord

The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.
1911 · Written note in Mondrian's sketchbook around 1911; quoted in Abstract Painting, Michel Seuphor, Dell Publishing Co.,1964, p. 11, Ses propres mots
It was during this early period of experiment that I first went to Paris. The time was around 1910 when Cubism was in its beginnings.
1910 · Quote of Mondrian about 1910; in 'Mondrian, Essays' ('Plastic art and pure plastic art', 1937 and his other essays, (1941-1943) by Piet, Ses propres mots
I believe that in our period it is definitely necessary that, as far as possible, the paint is applied in pure colours, set next to each other in a pointillist or diffuse manner.
23 octobre 1909 · Quote in Mondrian's letter to Israel Querido, Summer of 1909; published in the weekly magazine 'De Controleur' 23 Oct, 1909; as cited in, Ses propres mots