Mondrian Evolution (Non-mint)

Softcover | 21.8 x 3.6 x 27.4 cm | 300 pp

Hatje Cantz | 2022 | 9783775752367

Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) was one of the pioneers of abstract art. Hailing from a strict Calvinist family, the artist became famous for his compositions of black lines and rectangular fields in primary colours, but his early work was influenced by 19th century Dutch landscape painting. Mondrian had a decisive influence on the development of painting from figuration to abstraction. On the occasion of his 150th birthday, Mondrian Evolution traces his multifaceted work and artistic development.

Initially working in the tradition of late-nineteenth century Dutch landscape painting, Symbolism and Cubism subsequently took on great significance for him. It was not until the early 1920s that the artist focused on a wholly non-representational pictorial vocabulary, concentrated on the rectangular arrangement of black lines with surfaces in white and the primary colours blue, red, and yellow. In separate chapters, this path is traced through motifs such as windmills, dunes, the sea, farms reflected in the water, and plants in various forms of abstraction.

Featuring essays by Bridget Riley, UIf Küster, Benno Tempel, Caro Verbeek, Kathrin Beßen and Susanne Meyer-Büser.

PLEASE NOTE: This book is a NON-MINT item. NON-MINT books are new but are either ex-display copies or warehouse marked - minor cosmetic imperfections such as scuffs, marks, or minor dents to the covers.