Presentation about Mondrian's works.

1. The power of line
PIET MONDRIAN

2. Piet Mondrian was born in Holland in 1872.
He was influenced by many artistic styles.
Mondrian's first paintings were painted in a style similar
to impressionism.
The red tree, 1908

3. Then his style changed and he was interested in
cubism. He moved to Paris and his paintings were
more abstract.
The flowering apple tree, 1912

4. When he
returned home,
Mondrian and
some friends
created a new
art movement,
De Stijl or
neoplasticism.
Composition I with red and blue, 1931

5. They painted with black straight lines, rectangles,
squares and primary colours

6. Composition No. II,1920

7. Composition with red, yellow and blue, 1942

8. He was living in
London.
Composition London,1940

9. Trafalgar Square,1939

10. He lived in New
York and the
black lines were
changed for
crossed lines.
New York city I

11. Broadway boogie-woogie,1942

12. Mondrian died in 1944
“All painting - the painting
of the past as well as of the
present - shows us that its
essential plastic means we
are only line and color. ”
Piet Mondrian