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Aesthetics or Utility? Piet Mondrian has the Answer for it

Not many people know this but Piet Mondrian had the reputation of being a designer rather than a painter when he first arrived in New York in 1940. Born in the Netherlands, Mondrian initially trained as a traditional artist before evolving towards abstraction. He is regarded as the spiritual leader of the De Stijl Movement […]

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Piet Mondrian’s Neoplasticism: Art finds harmony in the simplest forms and colours

Manjeera March 7, ON THIS DAY “In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.” – Piet Mondrian Abstract art has many manifestations to it that can be observed as one looks through the repertoire of 20th-century modernist

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