MONDRIAN

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• AuthorBrigitte Léal
• PublisherCitadelles & Mazenod
• Date of publicationOctobre 2024
• Language(s)French
• IllustrationsColour ill.
• Pages368
• DescriptionHardback in slipcase
• Price (VAT incl.)199.00 €
• AvailabilityOn order

Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was an indecipherable but determined figure who patiently and methodically developed a considerable body of pictorial and theoretical work right up until his death. His exacting standards and quest for the absolute continue to fascinate art today.

In Zeeland, in 1908, her first themes were already fixed: the church, the lighthouse, the dunes, the sea. Horizontal and vertical, endlessly repeated, the lines sketched out a new vision of the world. His first move to Paris, between 1912 and 1914, confirmed his convictions. The cubism of Braque and Picasso, focused on a geometrisation of simple forms, convinced him to take the step towards abstraction. From 1913, the grid of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines replaced all figurative references to express 'truth in painting' and 'general beauty'. The titles of the works were abolished in favour of a strict numbering system that systematised his serial practice. Theorised in numerous texts and through a journal, De Stijl, his new plasticity, based on the primordial relationship of the right angle, became a veritable dogma from which Mondrian would never deviate.

This exhaustive monograph, published to mark the 80th anniversary of the artist's death, presents the entire artistic development of the Dutch artist, from his Naturalist, Fauvist, Pointillist, Symbolist and Cubist periods to the De Stijl movement and Neoplasticism.

Price (VAT incl.) : 199.00 €