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Fan account of Pieter Mondrian, a Dutch painter and theoretician regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. 1872-1944 Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social

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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 1m
Tableay No, Iv; Lozenge Composition www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/ta…
Tableay No, Iv; Lozenge Composition
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 4h
Evening at Weesperzijde Sun www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/ev…
Evening at Weesperzijde Sun
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 10h
Tableau 3 with Orange -Red, Yellow, Black, Blue and Gray www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/ta…
Tableau 3 with Orange -Red, Yellow, Black, Blue and Gray
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Stammer Mill with Streaked Sky www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/st…
Stammer Mill with Streaked Sky
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Untitled www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/no…
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Avond (Evening): The Red Tree www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/av…
Avond (Evening): The Red Tree
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lozenge Composition 3 Lines Blue Gray Yellow www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/lo…
Lozenge Composition 3 Lines Blue Gray Yellow
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Place de la Concorde www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/pl…
Place de la Concorde
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Mill of Heeswijk Sun www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/mi…
Mill of Heeswijk Sun
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Lonely tree at the Gein Sun www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/lo…
Lonely tree at the Gein Sun
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/co…
Composition with Red,  Blue and Yellow
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Flowers Sun www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/fl…
Flowers Sun
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Composition (No. 1) Gray-Red www.artic.edu/artworks/65821
The roots of 20th-century abstract art can be traced to the late 19th century, when artists began to move away from the direct representation of objects toward the communication of emotional states or moods. In doing so, the formal properties of art—such visual elements as line, color, and composition—assumed a primary role in its production. After World War I, many artists, including Piet Mondrian, believed that abstract art could contribute to a more harmonious society by communicating in a universal, visual language. In the wake of the war's destruction, artists associated with De Stijl (meaning, "the style") in the Netherlands recognized the need for a break with the past, as well as a new aesthetic language to correspond to their utopian vision of the world. In 1917 Mondrian joined the De Stijl movement and began to develop a purely visual language of verticals and horizontals, restricting his compositions to predominantly off-white grounds divided by black rectilinear lines that framed smaller blocks of primary colors.

Gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/co…
Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Composition in Yellow, Blue, and White, I www.moma.org/collection/works/80158
The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Calves in a Field Bordered by Willow Trees www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/ca…
Calves in a Field Bordered by Willow Trees
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Farm near Duivendrecht www.artic.edu/artworks/144467
Though Piet Mondrian is best known for his nonrepresentational paintings, his basic vision was rooted in landscape. He was particularly inspired by the flat topography of his native Holland, a subject he returned to even after he had begun working in an abstract style after attending an exhibition of the Cubist paintings of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in 1911. Mondrian first sketched this farm around 1905. Nine of the twenty known related paintings and drawings of the farm, however, were created later, during World War I. Mondrian likely returned to the subject because his wartime patrons generally preferred his earlier naturalistic compositions to his recent experiments with Cubism.

Gift of Dolly J. van der Hoop Schoenberg
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Still Life with Gingerpot 1 www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/st…
Still Life with Gingerpot 1
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Portrait of a Girl with Flowers www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/po…
Portrait of a Girl with Flowers
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Gray and Blue www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/co…
Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Gray and Blue
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Composition with Color Planes 5 www.moma.org/collection/works/80692
The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tableau I www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/ta…
Tableau I
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Small farm on Nistelrode www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/sm…
Small farm on Nistelrode
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
White Rose in a Glass www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/wh…
White Rose in a Glass
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On the Lappenbrink www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/on…
On the Lappenbrink
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Composition with Blue, Black, Yellow, and Red www.harvardartmuseums.org/collectio…
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Anonymous Gift in honor of Martin and Paul F. Sanders; Purchase through the generosity of Emily Rauh Pulitzer and the Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum; Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund; Esperia Foundation F...

© Mondrian/Holtzman Trust
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Tree A www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/mondri…
Purchased 1977
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tableau I: Lozenge with Four Lines and Gray www.moma.org/collection/works/79059
Katherine S. Dreier Bequest
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Farm Setting, Three Tall Trees in the Foreground collections.artsmia.org/art/3780
Piet Mondrian is famous for his paintings of irregular black grids on white backgrounds interspersed with rectangles in bright primary colors. Less familiar are the landscapes from earlier in his career. Mondrian began Farm Setting with a pencil, searching for pleasing rhythms and contours in the slender trees and the slant of the farmhouse roof. He varied his pastel application, seemingly working from background to foreground. Delicate strokes in the sky and the hazy tops of distant trees give way to broad middle- and foreground lines made with the sides of his dark pastel crayons. He then worked up details such as cows, fences, and buildings with firm precision. Caked-on colors impart solid mass to the buildings and the stumpy willow. Horizontal strokes of lighter colors animate the middle ground, while vertical and diagonal strokes give the foreground the appearance of long grasses dotted with wildflowers. His final touches to the outlines and branches of the tall trees fix the compositional grid in perfect balance and harmony. Hindsight reveals the gridlike Farm Setting as a forerunner of the stark compositions of Mondrian’s maturity, but his road to such Platonic ideals still lay ahead.
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Passionflower www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/pa…
Passionflower
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lily www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/li…
Lily
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Woman and child in front of a farm www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/wo…
Woman and child in front of a farm
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Composition N. 1 with Red and Blue www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/co…
Composition N. 1 with Red and Blue
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Girl Writing www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/gi…
Girl Writing
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Mill in Sunlight: The Winkel Mill www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/mi…
Mill in Sunlight: The Winkel Mill
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
No. VI / Composition No.II www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/mondri…
date inscribed
Purchased 1967
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Dune IV www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/du…
Dune IV
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trafalgar Square www.moma.org/collection/works/79879
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. M. Burden
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
View from the Dunes with Beach and Piers www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/vi…
View from the Dunes with Beach and Piers
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Going Fishing www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/go…
Going Fishing
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Woods near Oele www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/wo…
Woods near Oele
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Design for the Church of St. Jacob www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/de…
Design for the Church of St. Jacob
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Amaryllis www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/am…
Amaryllis
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Composition No.10 www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/co…
Composition No.10
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Composition III with Blue, Yellow and White www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/co…
Composition III with Blue, Yellow and White
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pier and Ocean 5 (Sea and Starry Sky) www.moma.org/collection/works/33419
Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Village Church www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/vi…
Village Church
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Composition in Oval with Color Planes 1 www.moma.org/collection/works/78441
Purchase
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Triangulated Farmhouse Facade with Polder in Blue www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/tr…
Triangulated Farmhouse Facade with Polder in Blue
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Farm at Duivendrecht www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/fa…
Farm at Duivendrecht
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