Piet #Mondrian #Animation: #Design and #Influence of #Dutch #Painter. He was a contributor to the #DeStijl #art #movement and group, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg. He evolved a non-representational form which he termed neoplasticism. This consisted of white ground, upon which he painted a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the three primary colors. The #paintings of Piet Mondrian are derived from a considered reduction; Mondrian's early work was done in an impressionist sty

Piet Mondrian 1872-1944. #Dutch pioneer of #abstract #art #DeStijl, who developed from early landscape pictures to geometric abstract works of a most rigorous kind. Born in Amersfoort, Utrecht. Studied painting at the Amsterdam Academy 1892-4 and again, part-time, 1896-7. Friendship with the painter Simon Mans and painted landscapes in the Hague School tradition. Began to work in a more vividly coloured and sometimes pointillist style in 1908, joined the Theosophic Organisation in 1909 and made