Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter born in 1872 who is considered one of the pioneers of 20th century abstract art. He began his career painting landscapes in a realistic style but over time developed his signature abstract geometric style using only the primary colors, black, white, and grey arranged in vertical and horizontal lines. This style, known as Neoplasticism, aimed to represent spiritual order and balance. Later in life, Mondrian moved to New York where the city's grid structure likely influenced his further simplified abstract compositions featuring blocks of primary colors divided by thick, black lines.

1. Piet Mondrian

2. INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE.
• Piet Mondrian was born the 7th
of March
1872 in Amersfoort (Netherlands) and died
the 1st
of February 1944 in New York
(U.S.A).
• He was the second of his parent's
children. At a very young age his father
Pieter and his Uncle Fritz, both artists
themselves, introduced Piet to the world
of art.
• He was a very important painter of
modern abstract art in the 20th
century.

3. Piet Mondrian began as an artist by
painting realistic landscapes.
He painted the world he saw around him.

4. THE FIRST DECADE OF
THE 20TH CENTURY
• Piet Mondrian
developed a
modern abstract
art movement
known as De Stijl
(“The Style”). He
used the simplest
combinations of
straight lines, right
angles, primary
colours, and black,
white, and gray.
•Piet Mondrian discovered
the Cubism in 1911 and
started to use geometrical
shapes in most of his
paintings . In 1912 he went
to Paris and he saw
exhibits from Pablo
Picasso and Georges
Braque, and he was
interested in the styles
they followed.

5. The gray tree• The Gray Tree is
one of the first
paintings in which
Mondrian applied to
a natural subject the
principles of cubist.

6. • Piet changed the way
he painted.
•He didn’t want his
pictures to look like
nature.
•He wanted to explore
how color and line
worked together.

7. •Over time, Piet’s
work became more
simple.
•Piet did not use
details and he only
used a few colors.
•Can you guess
which colors he
liked to use the
most?

8. I hope you guessed
the primary colors!
Red Yellow Blue

9. For 20 years Piet used only black,
white, grey and the three primary
colors.

10. Besides using just the primary
colors, Piet liked to use:
horizontal
&
vertical
lines in his art.

11. Sometimes he
would change
the thickness
of the lines.
Other times he
would place the
lines close
together or far
apart.

12. He was always trying to find a
perfect balance in his art.

13. When Piet was 68 years old,
he moved to New York City.
The skyscrapers and the straight
lines of the streets must have
reminded him of his paintings!

14. Here are some more paintings
by Piet Mondrian

16. LET’S WATCH SOME VIDEOS
• Information about his
life:https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=9fmiKOOvLUo
• Let’s have a look to his
paintings:https://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=9fmiKOOvLUo
• How to make your own Mondrian
painting:https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=yFvCHdVv-6Y