The great grandfather of geometric abstract painting was Piet Mondrian but his ideas of great simplicity -- few colors, fewer lines -- have been expanded exponentially by his children, grandchildren, ...

Piet Mondrian died in 1944, aged seventy-one, and by the time of his death he had pushed the concept of abstraction in painting on into the field of the non-objective and beyond it, into areas where ...

They may be two of the best-known names in early 20th century modern art, but Piet Mondrian and Hilma af Klint never actually met. Decades after their deaths in 1944, they are enjoying a posthumous ...

A painting by one of the pioneers of abstract art has broken the artist's own record by selling for more than $75 million at auction. Composition No. II was finished in 1930, one of almost 30 of Dutch ...

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BERLIN (AP) — Abstract compositions of black lines and rectangles filled with red, blue and yellow highlight a new Piet Mondrian exhibition in Berlin. The show goes far beyond the Dutch artist’s ...

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?

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 ...

Mondrian “made marks at the edges, then very slowly painted these lines. They look precise but they are based on intuition,” said Ulf Kuster, who organized the exhibition. For the Dutch artist, ...

Frieze London 2014. Photograph by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Linda Nylind/Frieze. One of the biggest international art fairs is back. And London’s Frieze isn’t just about selling contemporary art, it’s ...