Originally published in Dutch to accompany a 2014 exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (now Kunstmuseum Den Haag), this important survey of a pivotal period in the life of Piet Mondrian is now available in English. <\/p>\n
Drawn to the Cubist work of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, Mondrian spent two years in Paris, from 1912 to 1914, that led him to begin experimenting with an entirely original abstract style. Using a cubist palette of grey and ochre, the artist transformed the landscapes and architectural facades of his earlier figurative works into compositional structures of increasing complexity and abstraction. Upon his return to the Netherlands in 1914, the artist exhibited the 17 works he had painted during those two significant years in France. <\/p>\n
This volume maps Cubism\u2019s influence on artists working in the Netherlands at that time, and demonstrates Mondrian\u2019s central role in bridging the gap between the French Cubists and their Dutch contemporaries. Accompanying over 300 illustrations \u2013 including close details of key works \u2013 is a chronology by Mondrian expert Hans Janssen tracking the artist’s development within the context of its time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Important survey of a pivotal period in the life of Piet Mondrian: the two years in Paris, 1912\u201314, in which the artist began experimenting with an entirely original abstract style.
Contents
\n7 Preface
\nBenno Tempel
\n9 Foreword
\nHans Janssen
\n11 Chronology 1911\u20131914
\nHans Janssen
\n63 Finding Balance in Art and Music
\nPiet Mondrian and Jakob van Domselaer\u2019s
\nFirst Compositions
\nKeziah Goudsmit
\n69 The Exhibition at Kunsthandel Walrecht,
\nThe Hague
\n75 Glossary of Analytical Techniques
\n76 Composition no. i
\n80 Composition no. ii
\n84 Composition no. iii
\n88 Composition no. iv
\n94 Composition no. v
\n100 Composition no. vi
\n104 Composition no. vii
\n110 Composition no. viii
\n114 Composition no. ix
\n118 Composition no. x
\n120 Composition no. xi
\n124 Composition no. xii
\n128 Composition no. xiii
\n132 Composition no. xiv
\n136Composition no. xv
\n140 Composition no. xvi
\n142 Composition with Colour Planes: Facade
\nEndnotes
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