Piet Mondrian by Profesor Caneva

Piet Mondrian

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He was born in Holland in 1927 and died in 1987. In 1921 he painted "Composition", a good example of Abstract Art.

Composition

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1921

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.

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Before painting the canvases of squares that would make him famous, Mondrian was a landscaper who was beginning to fool around with the avant-gardes, in this case Fauvism.

In this work we can observe how the artist moves away from the traditional landscape and little by little approaches abstraction through the use of straight lines and primary colors.

Willow Grove: Impression of Light and Shadow

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This painting is an early impressionist artwork from Piet Mondrian, capturing a group of trees within the local Dutch countryside

Gray tree

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This painting was made in 1911 on canvas on a board measuring 78.5 × 107.5 cm.

The work came at a time when Mondrian was beginning to experiment with Cubism: its foreground and background elements seem to intermingle, and the palette is very restricted. Though the outline of the "apple tree" recalls that of Gray Tree, the work is significantly more faceted and abstract.

Yayoi Kusama

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Yayoi Kusama was born on March 22, 1929 in Matsumoto, Japan.

Career

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Throughout her career she has worked in a variety of media, including painting, collage, sculpture, performance and installations, most of which show her thematic interest in psychology, repetition and pattern. Kusama's work is based on conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, outsider art, pop art and abstract expressionism, as well as being fused with autobiographical, psychological and sexual content.

Infinity Mirror Rooms

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the Japanese artist has produced more than twenty Infinity mirror rooms. Thus, each of Kusama's kaleidoscopic environments offers the opportunity to enter an illusion of infinite space. The rooms also offer the opportunity to examine the artist's central themes, such as the celebration of life and its consequences.