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** [[file:piet mondrian.pptx]]Piet Mondrian **
(1872-1944)

In 1940, the great artist fled the war in Europe to New York City. At his death in 1944, all that was found in his apartment was a cache of personal papers. He had pared down his few possessions to some postcards, cablegrams, address-book pages, a notebook, an important unpublished essay, and his horoscope readings, all of which provide an intimate glimpse of a significant artist. The correspondence details his fears and anxieties elicited by the war. He was a 20th century painter who was most famous for painting that are made up of black lines and colored rectangles to make amazing pieces of art. His early years he was a naturalistic and landscapes. After a while he discovered cubism, which he fell in love with. He was Painter who would use watercolors primarily. The type of artwork in that period at that time was Abstract Expressionism. The styles over the years that Mondrian used were pointillism, cubist, independent abstract, and neoplastic he enjoyed all of them but he was most famous for his independent abstract. Many influenced Mondrian but here are some. Another person that influenced Mondrian was Pablo Picasso in his cubist days. Many people believe Picasso perfected and invented the cubist style of art. One last person that influenced Mondrian was Georges Braque who was also a famous cubist painter but also was know around the world for many other things and projects he did. Here are a few of our favorites. First of while he was visiting Paris for a trip because of WWI he couldn’t get back to the Netherlands which is his home country.

http://www.anthroposophie.net/bibliothek/kunst/malerei/mondrian/bib_mondrian.htm

Lines and squares is the title of my work of art. It is called this because it has a variety of line segments and color coated boxes. On this work of art, I used black, red, blue, and yellow sharpie marker. What inspired me to complete this work of art is the picture. I think these lines and colorful boxes is genius. When I saw this I knew I had to do this. The message behind this is a simple work of art like this can turn out to be an awesome piece. I did enjoy drawling this. I did because it was easy to draw. Some techniques are drawling strait lines. I think this is a successful piece of art, because I think it looks amazing. This is why I picked this work of art created by Piet Mondrian.