Piet Mondrian should feel flattered: people can tell the real thing from a slightly altered version - just. Chris McManus, a psychologist at University College London, took studies by the giant of ...
If the studio indicates a special sort of monomania, this exhibition, the largest and most comprehensive Mondrian retrospective ever staged, claims to move away from the image of cold obsessive. In ...
Piet Mondrian’s once groundbreaking squares and lines have become a cliché. Over the years, the impact of his paintings has been eroded by the various waves of couture dresses (Yves Saint Laurent), ...
Sean Rainbird, Director, National Gallery of Ireland, writes for Culture on RTÉ about the new exhibition of Mondarian paintings at the NGI A quarter century ago, I borrowed a small naturalistic ...
How did the work of a conceptually difficult abstract painter from the early 20th century come to be plastered on contemporary hotel décor, Yves Saint Laurent dresses, furniture, and jigsaw puzzles?
The art world has been left shocked after a curator revealed a Mondrian painting has been displayed in different galleries upside down for 75 years - and no one had any idea. Dutch artist Piet ...
For six years, the most comprehensive biography ever written on the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian was only available in Dutch. Thanks to a new translation, English-speaking audiences can now learn more ...
Close your eyes and think of Mondrian, and various words may come to mind ‘grids', say, or ‘rectangles', or ‘geometric abstraction'. Among those that very likely will not are ‘colourist' and ‘colours' ...
Tate Liverpool has rebuilt the room where Mondrian painted, listened to records and entertained friends – while Turner Contemporary traces the development of his beautifully simple later style Piet ...
Mondrian was interested in the Theosophical movement and in 1909 he joined the Dutch branch of the Theosophical Society. This spiritual movement significantly affected the development of his artistic ...
“In a squalid yard behind the clamour of the Gare Montparnasse, a dingy staircase leads to Piet Mondrian's door,” the journalist W F A Röell wrote in 1926, when he arrived at the studio of the great ...