Mondrian

How To Use Mondrian In A Sentence

• Thus, although Greenberg champions avant-garde abstract artists, his is not the more rational avant-garde aesthetic of, for example, the Soviet Constructivists (e.g. Malevich, Popova, Rodchenko and Rozanova), or that of Mondrian, but a mystical one that suited his denegation of exact knowledge better. Political Affairs Magazine
• Mondrian's style of painting involved the use of strictly horizontal or vertical black lines to create a grid of rectangles, some of which were filled in with black or white, or vivid red, blue or yellow.
• His hard-edged geometric paintings on diamond-shaped canvases were inspired by artists such as Piet Mondrian and Josef Albers.
• The colors - simmered shades of red, yellow and blue - are more urban decay than Mondrian, turning up as rusty orange, bilious yellow, bruised blue, teal blue and off-red, with smears of black and white.
• At this time his work was purely abstract, featuring geometrically disposed bars and rectangles in a style close to Mondrian and van Doesburg.
• I saw tables where there used to be desks, funky sweatshirts instead of grey pullovers, and a class full of smiling schoolchildren learning about Mondrian on laptops.
• Influenced by cubism, Mondrian created a style called “neoplasticism, ” which he used in works such as Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue and Broadway Boogie Woogie. Mondrian, Piet
• The exhibition, which opens in February, and brings together works by Mondrian and Nicholson originally shown in the same galleries, examines a little-known period of Mondrian's life in the late 1930s when he lived for two years in a bedsit in Hampstead, north London, and socialised with Nicholson, his first and second wives Winifred Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, and other avant-garde British artists. Mondrian's little known London period highlighted by exhibition of rare works
• In another image, he paints himself as a Mondrian abstraction, the hints of his profile enough to jar the harmonious verticals and horizontals out of alignment.
• This method in turn created the type of structural beauty, known as the ‘Mondrian pattern,’ which relies on the interplay of horizontals and verticals.