Piet Mondrian

Still Life with Gingerpot II

This is an oil painting from 1912 that shows Piet Mondrian's cubism art style. He has two versions of the painting. In the first version, the objects are recognizable parts of everyday life. In the second version, he transformed these objects and expressed abstraction more than ever before.

Dune IV

This piece is an example of Mondrian's fauvsim style. It is an oil painting he did from 1909 to 1910. Piet did not do have many paintings in a fauvism style, but it is clear he experimented with all kinds of painting forms.

Broadway Boogie Woogie

The Broadway Boogie Woogie is considered Mondrian's masterpiece. He worked on this painting from 1942 to 1943 and used neoplasticism. He depicted multi-colored grid lines, complete with blocks of color, all in the primary palette. This piece represented another development in Mondrian's unique style.