Chapter 1
From trees to straight lines
Chapter 2
The birth of the grid
Chapter 3
Boogie-woogie in New York
YOUR GOAL
Master of The life of Piet Mondrian
Ch 1 · From trees to straight lines
maya Piet Mondrian's Abstract Evolution
From a red tree, branches swaying (oh-oh) To a grid of lines, pure and bright (yeah-yeah)
Fun Fact
Mondrian's name: Piet Mondrian dropped an 'a' from his birth name, Mondriaan, to signal his modern artistic rebirth when moving to Paris.
Glossary
abstraction (noun)
The process of simplifying realistic subjects into basic shapes and lines. It's like tidying up a wild, sprawling tree into a neat grid of squares.
The process of simplifying realistic subjects into basic shapes and lines. It's like tidying up a wild, sprawling tree into a neat grid of squares.
Quiz
What natural subject did Mondrian paint repeatedly to transition from realism to abstraction?