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Piet Mondrian (1718 words) |
 | In Mondrian figuration is equated with the centripetal, nonfiguration with the centrifugal. |
| Mondrian's allegiance belonged to Impressionism and Seurat, to their concern with translating a sensation into a mesh of brushmarks. |
| Mondrian's neo-Impressionist brushmarks of 1908-10 were elongated into the short lines of the seascapes and façades of 1914-15 which in turn were elongated into lines extending from side to side of the canvas and seemingly beyond. |
| Richard Smith on Piet Mondrian (874 words) |
| Mondrian, born in the Netherlands in 1872, had progressed slowly and steadily towards abstraction. |
| One of the other attractions of New York to Mondrian was that it was the capital city of jazz, where one could see and hear, among others, the pile-driving pianists Pete Johnson and Meade Lux Lewis, masters of boogie woogie. |
| Mondrian had a love of music and dancing that belied his rather grim, Calvinist exterior and austere way of life. |
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