In his early career, in Amsterdam, Mondrian made easily salable paintings to survive while slowly narrowing down and simplifying his own work, especially in his stark paintings of chrysanthemums. His ...
They are among the very most famous artworks left to us by the twentieth century: Piet Mondrian’s geometric canvases, white backgrounds overlaid with spare, uneven black lines, set off by a few ...
Recent biographies of three iconic artists -- Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian and Alexander Calder -- paint a far more nuanced picture. Their lives suggest that while hardship may shape an artist's ...