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Art High School "M. Preti- A. Frangipane" Reggio Calabria
Class 5C - Architecture and Environment
Vincenzo Adornato
Christian Lammendola
Rosario Leuzzi
Domenico Trimboli

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Mondrian is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. He developed the language of abstract painting as we know it today. It didn't really exist before his practice.

So, we're standing in the reconstruction of his studio, which he occupied from 1921 to 1936. It became one of the most celebrated places in post-war Paris.

He had a section here around the door where, for a short time, Mondrian exhibited a number of his, kind of, key paintings. By the time we get to Composition II all of that contrastive reference to motifs has, kind of, disappeared. So, this is like a little narrative of moving finally into an abstract world set in this extraordinary studio space.

It's a really interesting question he's posing himself here is that, can you use colour just as itself and not to stand for anything else? If you made yellow into a circle immediately people start making associations with the sun or something like that. So, he decides that the only way forward is to paint in areas of perpendicular relationships that, you can still see that he's actually mixing the colour really very dramatically. So the yellow is going almost towards the green, the red towards an orange. He's really still not quite, kind of, happy with using them in these, kind of, dramatically dense ways.

So, here we have compositions from the mid-1920s. This is when Mondrian's really, kind of, hit his stride. He was very, kind of, interested in how to balance things that actually were unbalanced. See, the pushing of elements to the edge where actually have a complete empty centre. But what's really, kind of, fascinating about what's going on here is exactly that area there and how you read that as a definite shape. And it's really, really crucial that you don't read the white just as an empty background. Actually, the whites are very, very carefully built-up.This is actually a very pale grey, blue, and it's different to that and that is different to that. They actually stand for something in and of themselves.

A lot of people think about Mondrian's paintings as just flat and graphic. However you start to see them as creating very, kind of, dynamic spatial relationships and where things then start to seem to push off the edge and actually into our space. And where he's thinking about his studio then is actually as a type of abstract space that he might be creating through painting. He thought that this was part of the development of humanity generally, that we would create a, kind of, different world and environment for ourselves.

Most people thought this was of the end of painting. What he was producing here was the ultimate point. And so people thought about him really at the end of his career. We think about these paintings now as the beginning. Actually, this is point at which he Mondrian and he proved over and over again that actually there was much further to go with it.

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Piet Mondrian: Studio and Abstraction - TateShots | Tate

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Mondrian is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. He developed the language of abstract painting as we know it today. It didn't really exist before his practice. So, we're standing in the reconstruction of his studio, which he occupied from 1921 to 1936.

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Pieter Cornelis " Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian (; Dutch: [ˈpit ˈmɔndrijaːn], later [ˈmɔndrijɑn]; 7 March 1872 - 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.

Mondrian's art was highly utopian and was concerned with a search for universal values and aesthetics. He proclaimed in 1914: Art is higher than reality and has no direct relation to reality. To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual. We find ourselves in the presence of an abstract art. Art should be above reality, otherwise it would have no value for man. His art, however, always remained rooted in nature.

He was a contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which he co-founded with Theo van Doesburg. He evolved a non-representational form which he termed Neoplasticism. This was the new 'pure plastic art' which he believed was necessary in order to create 'universal beauty'. To express this, Mondrian eventually decided to limit his formal vocabulary to the three primary colors (red, blue and yellow), the three primary values (black, white and gray) and the two primary directions (horizontal and vertical). Mondrian's arrival in Paris from the Netherlands in 1911 marked the beginning of a period of profound change. He encountered experiments in Cubism and with the intent of integrating himself within the Parisian avant-garde removed an 'a' from the Dutch spelling of his name (Mondriaan).

Mondrian's work had an enormous influence on 20th century art, influencing not only the course of abstract painting and numerous major styles and art movements (e.g. Color Field painting, Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism), but also fields outside the domain of painting, such as design, architecture and fashion. Design historian Stephen Bayley said: 'Mondrian has come to mean Modernism. His name and his work sum up the High Modernist ideal. I don't like the word 'iconic', so let's say that he's become totemic - a totem for everything Modernism set out to be.

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Pieter Cornelis " Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian (; Dutch: [ˈpit ˈmɔndrijaːn], later [ˈmɔndrijɑn]; 7 March 1872 - 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.

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La Mondrian House di Amersfoort, in Olanda, è stata completamente rinnovata in occasione del centenario di De Stijl. Autore del restyling è lo studio di experience design Tinker imagineers, che ha progettato e realizzato tutto: dal concept all'arredamento, passando per le grandi installazioni multimediali. Negli spazi della casa natale di Piet Mondrian ora i visitatori possono imparare a conoscere l'artista attraverso una serie di ambienti che ne raccontano la vita e l'opera: da Amersfoort a Winterswijk, e da Amsterdam a New York passando per Parigi e Londra.
Il percorso inizia con una video-installazione dedicata all'opera di Mondrian, una storia fatta di immagini e suoni che accompagna gli spettatori in un viaggio che parte dai primi dipinti di paesaggio per arrivare alle opere astratte per cui l'artista è divenuto famoso in tutto il mondo. In sottofondo, la musica che amava: da Ravel al jazz, da from Stravinsky al Boogie-Woogie.

Artribune è una piattaforma di contenuti e servizi dedicata all'arte e alla cultura contemporanea, nata nel 2011 grazie all'esperienza decennale nel campo dell'editoria, del giornalismo e delle nuove tecnologie.

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Il video del nuovo museo dedicato a Mondrian | Artribune

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La Mondrian House di Amersfoort, in Olanda, è stata completamente rinnovata in occasione del centenario di De Stijl. Autore del restyling è lo studio di experience design Tinker imagineers, che ha progettato e realizzato tutto: dal concept all'arredamento, passando per le grandi installazioni multimediali.