Piet Mondrian - Nueva York 3, (inacabado), 1941

Offset Lithograph Nueva York 3, (inacabado), 1941/ Piet Mondrian.
Published by Thyssen-Bornemisza Museo Nacional .

Piet Mondrian, the “painter of little squares,” was a Dutch artist whose work revolved around the magazine *De Stijl*, the main vehicle for promoting Neoplasticism.
For artists like Mondrian, art should be represented through straight lines and pure colors. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
In Mondrian’s case, this was because the rectilinear and the chromatically pure were symbols of the expression of cosmic order.
This is linked to the theosophical theories that were in vogue in Belle Époque Europe and which, in the long run, are nothing more than an attempt at abstraction different from Kandinsky’s. Much more orderly, more mathematical… and colder.

He trained as a drawing teacher in the public school system, and by the turn of the century in Amsterdam, he began associating with the innovative artistic groups of the time. There he painted his first works, light-years away from what would come later: serene, gray landscapes, earth tones, dark hues…

But in 1912 he moved to Paris, where he met people like Léger and Braque, who introduced him to the new and wild art of the 20th century. At first he became a Cubist like them, but little by little he became more interested in abstraction.

The Great War broke out, and the artist returned to the Netherlands, where he met his future colleagues in the movement, Bart van der Leck and Theo van Doesburg. Together with them and others (architects, designers, etc.), he founded the magazine *De Stijl*.
Through the magazine, this group of artists sought to represent the absolute truths of the universe. From that moment on, Mondrian would express himself solely through planes of primary colors and straight lines.
Eventually, Van Doesburg would begin using diagonals, bored with so many monotonous lines, and an offended Mondrian would definitively break away from the group over such a sacrilege.

After that, he traveled, exporting his artistic vision: London, New York… There, he would shed his former rigidity and gain a sense of rhythm. Perhaps it was the jazz, perhaps the cosmopolitanism of the Big Apple… Who knows.

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