The Mood Room · Piet Mondrian
Piet Mondrian Enter a
feeling, not
a gallery.
Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
Piet Mondrian
The Life and Identity of Piet Mondrian The man who would reshape the visual language of the twentieth century began his life as Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, Jr. He was born on March 7, 1872, in Amersfoort, Netherlands. For years, he operated under this formal name, but a shift occurs in 1911 when he adopts the name Piet Mondrian. He is a Dutch painter and art theoretician, a man whose intellect sought to map the very structures of existe
nce through paint and theory. His life moves from the quietude of the Netherlands to the frantic energy of the global stage. The final chapter of his life unfolds in New York, New York, U.S. He dies there on February 1, 1944, from pneumonia. The transition from the naturalistic landscapes of his youth to the rigid, rhythmic grids of his later years marks a total transformation of purpose.Early Life, Family and Training Amersfoort, Net…
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