Piet Mondrian was born Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, Jr., on March 7, 1872, at Amersfoort, the Netherlands. Until 1908, when he started to take yearly trips to Domburg at Zeeland, Mondrian's work was pragmatic --integrating sequential on impacts of instructional landscape and still-life painting, Dutch Impressionism, and Symbolism. In 1909 a significant exhibition of his job (with this of Jan Sluijters and Cornelis Spoor) was held in the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and that same year he joined the Theosophic Society. In 1909 and 1910 he experimented with Pointillism and by 1911 had started to function in a Cubist manner. After viewing first Cubist works by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in the first Moderne Kunstkring exhibition in 1911 at Amsterdam,Mondrian chose to proceed to Paris. There, from 1912 to 1914, he started to develop a different abstract fashion.
Piet Mondrian Art
Mondrian saw the Netherlands when World War I broke out and averted his return to Paris. Throughout the war years in Hollande reduced his colours and geometric shapes and devised his nonobjective Neoplastic design. Back in 1917, Mondrian became one of the founders of De Stijl. The group, formed by Theo van Doesburg, Bart van der Leck, and Georges Vantongerloo, continued on its principles and rules of abstraction and simplification outside painting and sculpture to industrial and graphic design. Mondrian's essays on abstract art were printed in the periodical De Stijl. Back in July 1919, he returned to Paris; there that he exhibited De Stijl in 1923, but withdrew from the team after van Doesburg reintroduced diagonal elements into his job around 1925. Back in 1930, Mondrian revealed with Cercle et Carré (Circle and Square) and in 1931 united Abstraction-Création.