The Dutch painter Piet Mondrian left an unmistakable mark on the world of art -- which is why a city in his homeland is paying him tribute. Mark Phillips takes us on a walking tour: Walk along any ...
Piet Mondrian never intended to go to London. The dream was always New York, that modern place of vertical steel, fashion, and the jazz the Dutchman adored dancing to. Besides, American collectors had ...
How did the work of a conceptually difficult abstract painter from the early 20th century come to be plastered on contemporary hotel décor, Yves Saint Laurent dresses, furniture, and jigsaw puzzles?
The heirs of Piet Mondrian have filed a lawsuit in a US district court seeking the return of a quartet of paintings by the Dutch artist— reportedly valued at over $200 million—from the Kunstmuseen ...
WHETHER they know it or not, the architect, the layout artist, the sign painter, and even the counter girl who wraps a candy box asymmetrically with a gay ribbon all owe a debt to a lone Dutchman ...
From 1908 to 1911, Piet Mondrian lived and worked at Sarphatipark 42, a building designed for artists. (© Mondrian/Holtzman Trust, all images courtesy Thames & Hudson) Edited by Dutch designer Cees W.
Robyn Williams: What makes art work? Is there something in the brain that responds to certain images? Well at a primitive level the answer's Yes. We are programmed to react to the obvious dots and ...
No image on the Internet is safe from the hands of code-hacking glitch artists–not even the hallowed work of modern art masters. And in some cases, that’s a good thing. In a new series by digital ...
When we look at a painting by Mondrian, we must push to the backs of our minds all the ways in which Mondrian’s own dream was subsequently corrupted, trivialised, or re-packaged as kitsch You’re ...