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The Central Exhibition Hall in Perm hosts the exhibition "Bag"
15.04.2015
The opening of the exhibition, where two expositions of world famous artists Pyotr Frolov and Natalia Tur are presented, took place on February 27.
There are no funds in the Louvre for the exhibition of Jeff Koons
13.04.2015
The management of the Louvre was forced to cancel an exhibition of works by the artist Jeff Koons due to lack of funding.
10 years after the cancellation, it was decided to return the Edvard Munch Award
10.04.2015
Finally, after many years of calm, the premium has been restored.
This happened thanks to the support of the Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil.
Pete Mondrian
MONDRIAN, PETE (nast.
name Peter Cornelis (Mondrian, Mondriaan Piet) (1872-1944), Dutch artist.
His paintings, which are combinations of rectangles and lines, are an example of the most strict, uncompromising geometric abstraction in modern painting.
Born on March 7, 1872 in Amersfoort.
His first works were written in a realistic style.
In 1911, he met the Cubists, and their work began to have a significant influence on the formation of the young artist.
Soon Mondrian abandoned the slightest hints of plot, atmosphere, modeling and spatial depth in his paintings and gradually consciously limited the means of expression.
In 1912-1916, he built compositions based on a freely constructed spatial grid that filled the canvas.
At this time, Mondrian, like Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso during the period of analytical Cubism, preferred a palette of reddish brown and gray shades.
In 1914, the artist returned to Holland to his father, who was dying, and remained in his homeland throughout the First World War, and in 1919 he went back to Paris.
By this time he was already a member of the circle, which included Theo van Dusburg, Aud, Rietveld and van Esteren.
All of them were adherents of modernism, worked in styles close to Mondrian's painting, and may have had some influence on him in the transition from cubist compositions to pure geometric forms of red, yellow and blue rectangles.
In 1917, Mondrian and Theo van Dusburg founded the avant garde magazine "De Stil" and a group with the same name.
The aesthetic theory underlying this trend was called neoplasticism.
In accordance with the requirements of neoplasticism Mondrian further reduced his artistic means, using only white, gray, black and the most intense tones of the main colors of the spectrum By 1920, the Mondrian style was fully formed.
Using straight lines of rigid contours, he made the compositions asymmetric, achieving a dynamic balance.
Through the rejection of particulars and details, he hoped to achieve a clearer expression of the universal fundamental principles of creativity, striving to find what he called "pure plastic reality".
In 1940, Mondrian moved to New York; two years later, his first solo exhibition took place.
In one of the artist's last works, Boogie Woogie on Broadway (New York, the Museum of Modern Art), there was a tendency to move away from the strict classical principles of the avant garde.
In this work, small squares are dotted on a grid of lines, which gives the whole composition a new syncopated complexity and playfulness of rhythm.
Mondrian died in New York on February 1, 1944.
His works have influenced many contemporary artists, such as Alexander Calder, Ben Nicholson, Victor Vasareli and Fritz Glarner.
A number of trends in contemporary art, such as minimalism and op art, go back to the work of Mondrian, as well as forms of modern architecture, advertising and printing.
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See also:
Balla Giacomo Beckman Max Vasareli Victor Goncharova Natalia Sergeevna Gris Juan Dali Salvador Jones Jasper Duchamp Marcel Jeanneret Charles Edouard (Le Corbusier) Kandinsky Vasily Vasilyevich Klee Paul Kooning Willem De Larionov Mikhail Fedorovich Matisse Henri Malevich Kazimir Severinovich Mondrian Pete Ozanfan Amede Pollock Jackson Picasso Pablo Rousseau, Henri Julien Felix Warhol Andy Frantisek Kupka Rodchenko Alexander Mikhailovich
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