Piet Mondrian found fame, fortune and glory with his grid-like paintings lit with basic colours. But did many of his ideas come from Marlow Moss? Our writer celebrates an extraordinary British talent ...
The Dutch painter Piet Mondrian left an unmistakable mark on the world of art -- which is why a city in his homeland is paying him tribute. Mark Phillips takes us on a walking tour: Walk along any ...
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The heirs of Piet Mondrian have filed a lawsuit in a US district court seeking the return of a quartet of paintings by the Dutch artist— reportedly valued at over $200 million—from the Kunstmuseen ...
Mondrian “made marks at the edges, then very slowly painted these lines. They look precise but they are based on intuition,” said Ulf Kuster, who organized the exhibition. For the Dutch artist, ...
Children channeled Piet Mondrian during the first-ever meeting of the Masterpieces at Main art club recently at Mentor Public Library. Mondrian used grids and primary colors to make striking artwork ...
BERLIN (AP) — Abstract compositions of black lines and rectangles filled with red, blue and yellow highlight a new Piet Mondrian exhibition in Berlin. The show goes far beyond the Dutch artist’s ...
WHETHER they know it or not, the architect, the layout artist, the sign painter, and even the counter girl who wraps a candy box asymmetrically with a gay ribbon all owe a debt to a lone Dutchman ...
Artist Piet Mondrian is known today for his patterns of black lines and bold, primary colors. But he started out painting classic Dutch landscapes. An exhibit at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague traces ...
Sometime in the 2000s, I became hooked on an online video game called “Pac-Mondrian.” It was like “Pac-Man” — you gobbled dots while running from ghosts — but replaced that game’s grid labyrinth with ...
A canvas by Piet Mondrian fetched $50.6 million at a Christie’s sale in New York on Thursday, an auction record for the late modern artist who is famous for his paintings of rectilinear patterns ...
The lawsuit argues that Piet Mondrian, the artist, never lost title to the painting, which was looted by the Nazis and has been in the museum since 1943. By Catherine Hickley The heirs of Piet ...