Artist Piet Mondrian is known today for his patterns of black lines and bold, primary colors. But he started out painting classic Dutch landscapes. An exhibit at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague traces ...

Piet Mondrian, “Windmill in Twilight” (c. 1907-1908), oil on canvas, 67.5 x 117.5 cm; © Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague, the Netherlands (all images courtesy ...

A small show at the Museum of Fine Arts traces the Dutch artist’s fascinating evolution from landscapes to abstraction Try — just try — to read the name “Mondrian” and not think of right-angled ...

WHEN he was 68, Piet Mondrian arrived in New York, having fled Nazi-occupied Europe. He was celebrated by such 20th-century American greats as Ad Reinhardt, Jasper Johns and Mark Rothko, who called ...

The organizers of a large Piet Mondrian exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel are forging ahead with a provocative thesis: that the artist never truly abandoned nature. The show, which will ...

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 ...

Some years after he had renounced figurative painting for good, Piet Mondrian had a momentary lapse with a startling self-portrait made in 1918. The picture shows the artist standing stiff as a board ...

Piet Mondrian’s primary coloured geometric compositions say much about modern life, writes Alastair Sooke. “Before you start to think about Mondrian’s paintings,” says the Dutch artist’s biographer ...

Vincent van Gogh and Piet Mondrian are convenient foils, personifying swirls and straight lines, nature and abstraction, license and restraint. The Dutchmen, however, were in many ways alike. They had ...

Piet Mondrian in his studio in Amsterdam, Spring 1906. (image courtesy RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History) Two of the great European modernist painters, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, have ...

Though they shared a fascination with spiritualism and with abstract form, clear contrasts emerge in this controversial pairing of painters They never met. They never saw nor even knew of each other’s ...