Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.
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About Piet Mondrian
Piet Mondrian was a 19th-century Dutch painter. Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, known after 1911 as Piet Mondrian, was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He was one of the pioneers of 20th-century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Art — Creativity, expression, and the role of art in society
- Experience — Learning through living, doing, and facing the world
- Alone — Solitude, independence, and the experience of being alone