Piet Mondrian

'Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian (7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944) was a Dutch painter. He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg. He evolved a non-representational form which he termed neoplasticism. This consisted of white ground, upon which was painted a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the three primary colors.

Writings

Books

• Le Néo-plasticisme, principe général de l'équivalence, Paris: L'Effort moderne, 1920. (in French)
• Neue Gestaltung, Neoplastizimus, Nieuwe Beelding, Munich: Albert Langen, 1925, 66 pp. (in German)
• Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art, 1937, and Other Essays, 1941-1943, New York: Wittenborn, 1945; 3rd ed., 1951, 64 pp; rev.ed., Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 2008, 64 pp.
• The New Art: The Collected Writings of Piet Mondrian, London, 1987.
• Neoplasticismo na pintura e na arquitetura, ed. Carlos A. Ferreira Martins, trans. João Carlos Pijnappel, São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2008, 232 pp. (in Portuguese)

Articles

• "De groote boulevards" [1920], Die neuwe Amsterdammer 273, Amsterdam, 27 Mar 1920; repr. in Maatstaf 26, Amsterdam: De Arbeiderspers, 1977, pp 25-27, DBNL.
• "Klein restaurant -'Palmzondag'" [1920], Die neuwe Amsterdammer 274, Amsterdam, 3 Apr 1920; repr. in Maatstaf 26, Amsterdam: De Arbeiderspers, 1977, pp 28-30, DBNL. (in Dutch)
• "Diskussion über ernst kallai's artikel 'Malerei und Fotografie'", i 10 1:6, Amsterdam, Jun 1927; repr. in Internationale Revue i 10 1927-1929, Amsterdam: Van Gennep, 1979, DBNL. (in German)
• "Neo-plasticisme De Woning - De Straat - De Stad" [1926], i 10 1, Amsterdam, 1927, pp 12-18; repr. in Internationale Revue i 10 1927-1929, Amsterdam: Van Gennep, 1979, DBNL. (in Dutch)
• "De jazz en de Neo-plastiek", i 10 1:12, Amsterdam, Dec 1927; repr. in Internationale Revue i 10 1927-1929, Amsterdam: Van Gennep, 1979, pp 421-427, DBNL. (in Dutch)
• "art and life. new art - new life (the culture of pure relationship)" [1931], trans. Til Brugman, in De Stijl 1917-1931, ed. Hans Ludwig C. Jaffé, Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, 1956, pp 211-254, DBNL.
• "the true value of the oppositions" [1934], in De Stijl 1917-1931, ed. Hans Ludwig C. Jaffé, Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, 1956, pp 255-258, DBNL.

Catalogues

• Kunst zonder onderwerp, Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1938. (in Dutch)
• Toward the True Vision of Reality, New York: Valentin Gallery, 1942.
• Exhibition, New York: Sydney Janis, 1951, IA.
• Earlier Years, New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1957, IA.
• Mondrian/De Stijl, Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2010, Scribd. (in French)

Literature

• Michel Sephor, Piet Mondrian: Life and Work, New York: H.N. Abrams, 1956, 443 pp, IA.
• Italo Tomassoni, Firenze: Sadea Sansoni, 1969. (in Italian)
  • Mondrian, London: Hamlyn, 1970, 96 pp, PDF, OL.
  • Mondrian, Vienna: Kunstkreis Luzern Freudenstadt, 1971. (in German)
• Tim Threlfall, Piet Mondrian: his life's work and evolution, 1872 to 1944, University of Warwick, 1978, PDF. Ph.D. dissertation.

See also

• De Stijl