Saturday, March 07, 2020

Painter Piet

Piet Mondrian was born on this day in 1872.  His work is as well known as any artist around. On Green Acres, the Douglas's swanky Manhattan apartment has a Mondrian (I bet it's an original).  There are a group of Hotel Mondrians based on his style.  Does any other painter have that?

If you want to be a famous painter, you've got to work in a style that people recognize, and I'm not sure anyone did it better than Piet.  His early works were more conventional, but he got more and more abstract and more geometrical as well.  Here are a few examples, though just one should do.

 
 

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Did he design the Monopoly board?

9:13 AM, March 07, 2020  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who remembers the apartment building on Hill in Ann Arbor that was painted in Mondrian?

5:30 AM, March 08, 2020  

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