Piet Mondrian's Artistic Evolution

[@joshkatsikis9138]

My local art museum happens to have broadway boogie woogie in their permanent collection and whenever I go to see an exhibition I always pop in to the permanent collection to come back to this and other favorite works. I never knew the context for the painting or that it was his last, I really appreciate the video.

[@rgb3376]

Is this local art museum MoMA?

[@Theeme]

I have to admit that as more the video progresses, the less I like Mondrian's pictures - they are interesting, sure, especially the Broadway Boogie-Woogie, but they don't touch/move me in the way other art does. However, I think especially this kind of modern/abstract art really benefits from this type of video, for it not only analyzes one single picture, but shows its meaning in the artist's creative history and progression of style over time. So, thank you for (again) broadening my horizons :)

[@bigcirkus306]

I completely agree wit you. Moreover, I think that all that is a pretentious bluff. But, let´s say that there exist a possibility that we have no sensor (antena) that can decode for us a hidden meaning.

[@Joostuh]

@@bigcirkus306 Well you are wrong. Mondriaan's work is composition laid bare, no noise, no limitations only composition. It's an uncompromising quest to find the universal influence of composition on beauty.

[@Joostuh]

And there is no hidden meaning. All meaning has been stripped away, that's the point. His art works on a much more logical than emotional level.

[@bigcirkus306]

@@Joostuh Sorry, but i am not able to understand the meaning of your words. Composition of what? I can only se a composition of colours and limited ones. "Uncompromising quest to find the universal influence of composition on beauty" .......I can not understand that language.

[@jojojo8835]

Me too- I was mind blown when I first saw some of his earlier lake paintings, the gradual development of abstraction towards grids, like he invented pixelation. Same amount of pigment just differently distributed. I’d never seen an artist go through so many different styles in one lifetime- smitten!

[@xyzxyzxyz2959]

Quality of the content you make is so high! One of the best art channels on KZbin period.

[@Shawn.Grenier]

Wow! What an honour! Thank you so much!

[@cgautz]

Thanks!

[@marnanel]

Thank you! This makes the evolution of his work much clearer to me.

[@avedic]

I used to get nothing from Mondrian's later work. Now though? I absolutely adore it. It's hard to articulate _why_ I love it so much tho.....and that's part of what I find fascinating about it. The sheer ineffable nature of my love for it is interesting in itself. I love the primal de facto geometry of it....

[@matthewrobinson6872]

One of my favorite artists of all time loved how he experimented and tried new things.

[@denisceballos9745]

When I look at Mondrian’s later paintings, I marvel at how well he balanced his compositions. They don’t “pull” to the right or left. Using only straight lines and the primary colors, plus white and black, his pictures are perfectly balanced. In fact, his colors seem to move rhythmically. This was a unique and very gifted artist.

[@retromodernism1799]

A really valuable account of Mondrian's progression & development, carefully and accurately narrated. Thank you !

[@cassievining340]

So glad I found this video! I'm doing bellwork with my high schoolers and this week is Mondrian's Composition with Red, Yellow, Blue and Black! I think this will enrich the topic and invite a discussion!

[@windowsight_official]

It's incredible to see how Mondrian shaped and perfected his style with every artwork he painted. Great and informative video

[@luisapinheiro8820]

That's what I call an awesome tribute to such an amazing artist! Very well done!

[@stefanpredoi4564]

I wonder what would've happened if he had lived longer and painted more like Broadway boogie. Perhaps he would've "reconstructed" his older style, but working from the minimalist forms of his De Stijl period, or perhaps he would've made something entirely new. Great video.

[@joshuaklappe]

Funny to see all these complaints about the dutch pronunciation of the name Piet Mondrian. Indeed, Piet is correctly pronounced as 'Pete' and not as 'Pee-yet' but he changed his surname himself (from Mondriaan to Mondrian) when he moved to Paris in 1911. So no mistake from the narrator there! Only thing I would add is the pronunciation of the movement 'De Stijl' which is 'The Style' and not 'The Steel'. Maybe you've mistaken it for the German 'Stil' pronounced as 'Steel', which is not Dutch. Many times Dutch is closer to English than you might think. Anyways, keep up the good work, the videos are enlightening!

[@iamforsaken_1]

Insightful video as always, keep up the good work!

[@TankCowIvan]

fantastic video. short, but cohesive and informative. great!

[@choiscolor5290]

I love mondrian paintings. Thanks♥

[@aramasarma873]

Art is always the higher form of consciousness. The lines that Mondrian used had a better connect and rhythm. Art is always felt in the depthness beyond understanding of the human mind. So pure. Art speaks the essence of artist and it is human experience beyond all limitations that connects the soul of art lovers.

[@MobilityMatt]

Hello Canvas! I came here from Nerdwriter with... honestly low expectations. I was pleasantly surprised! Your video is informative and well designed. I love helpful, critical commentary when I produce something so I wanted to offer you a few constructive thoughts. Really hope it helps :) Opening- Why is this man so impactful and important to art? What is he trying to say about people? Why should he be important to me? -Neo Plasticism definition- Drags on a bit long. Simplify. Purity. -He moved because of Fascism. Did he make any political statements with his work? How did fascism impact his work? -Link between new NY lifestyle and painting. As the energetic pace of New York began to infuse his world that crazy energy seeped into the lines of his paintings. Ending- Stronger correlation between his journey and our journey. -Are we all seeking purity? Are we all ultimately desiring to be broken down to our simplest, clearest forms? What does his art say about all of us? Hope this helps. Keep up the great work!

[@reputablehype]

Mondrian's work as a whole basically captured life perfectly. You start out with grand plans, perfect vision of what you want to achieve. It's as if everything is possible, all the tools and options at your disposal. Then as you age you run into limitations and you become more and more rigid. Eventually just small splashes of colour along your routine days. The days are simple but that's okay because you have your earlier experiences that live on in their own right.

[@taraxacum]

I heard that his work was referenced in the painting of the Partridge Family schoolbus, of all things, and I like learning more about his life and work. This video does a good job of it.

[@granttoye5852]

I'd love to see the canvas explain M.C. Escher! Very complex. One of my favorites. I've also loved how iconic Mondrian's work has become. I have the strangest feeling that I've seen Mondrian references in cartoons

[@kiyositanaka]

i am in japan And the single entrance door of the house has several colors and patterns. When I thought of adding this, I was reminded of a painting by Mondrian. Please refer to this video. In any case, being an artist (woodworks) Even if you are an architect) your own design is It's consistent. Whether it's the chair Hans Wegner or the architect Kengo Kuma, Every piece has a consistent design no matter which way you look at it. There are parts.

[@tsanyubaidillah5854]

Thanks for a great explanation...

[@Shawn.Grenier]

No problem Tsany! Thank you for your comment! :)

[@stephenturner6075]

Composition ll Red Blue and Yellow is my all time favourite painting.

[@hartgetzen7867]

Well done!

[@plywoodcarjohnson5412]

I admire his confidence. They say 90% of the worlds population are idiots. To go against the stream a believing in all this, relentlessly proceeding is very impressive. I think there is more to discover in Richters and Pollacks paintings. But the life and artistic progression of Mondrians art is impressive. To keep pleasing people and asking others if it looks good is a sign of weakness really. Or fear if you wish. If you find a new idea, run with it. How many Mondrians are there out there? Very few.

[@Sharon-cy8sy]

It's interesting the influence of Picasso and other contemporary artists in Paris at the time , influenced Mondrian.

[@Sarakindamt]

Educational and informative Thanks a lot

[@veroniqueblais5486]

I’m your biggest fan!

[@curiousworld7912]

I think I appreciate and admire the journey, more than I do the destination.

[@DaMurph]

Was he popular in his day? Did he sell?

[@jonathanmddl2440]

I have to admit I don't understand this kind of modern art, I like a lot his first paintings, but the last ones are so abstract and simple that I feel that if someone in the internet posted one of the last paintings, all the people would think he did it in 5 minutes on MSPaint and that it has no meaning, but if the original artist were living and posted the same painting on internet, a lot of people would think it's a masterpiece just because the artist is famous...

[@ayanmukherjee2170]

Art is many times more about the meaning behind it, the creation of it, what it represents, what it has changed, and the person who created it than what it looks like. That is what makes Piet Mondrian so interesting to so many people. It is what it he tries to represent, and what he has tried to change and challenge. Personally, the whole “universal beauty” he tried to pull off makes his paintings a lot more interesting to me. Also, paintings like this should teach you to appreciate art of all forms, even those that were painted on MSPaint in five minutes lol. Don’t let the opinions of others sway yours.

[@amb600cd0]

@@ayanmukherjee2170 really love your comment

[@kevinvu5432]

I love his artwork because it feels like it's trying to represent creation at its simplest form. Like the world is a blank canvas, and the fire thing that was created was lines and primary colors. Not every painting is a hit. I don't like Conposition with Yellow Lines

[@floppycockjamboozle5382]

@@ayanmukherjee2170 while the meaning and story behind a piece may be more important, Mondrian really did create visually bangin designs.

[@Moodboard39]

​@@ayanmukherjee2170well said

[@floptropican_rat1]

Amazing video!

[@ranjanjoshi3454]

Thanks insightful

[@jermainengxueminpcps278]

What does he use to paint

[@I_am_Lauren]

He used primarily oil paint. Though some of his later works after 1935 may have been in Acrylic since it was newly invented.

[@cocoananas889]

Very good video

[@Shawn.Grenier]

Thank you!

[@sureshshenoy6393]

Awesome

[@Shawn.Grenier]

Thank you!

[@maartken5173]

Great video, however as a dutch person your pronunciation of 'Piet Mondriaan' made me giggle. It's not french, it's dutch. And it's pronounced like: Pete/peet Mon-dree-ahn

[@Moodboard39]

Damn hard to pronounce those names

[@vicjames3256]

Art like this does not move as much for many as when seen in person. I didn't GET Monet, Kandinsky, Pollack, Miro, Mondrian, etc. till I saw their works up close. They do indeed move.

[@erics7004]

Mondrian and László Moholy-Nagy are the most amazing artists in the 20th century. Both move forward art to different levels.

[@larikmezey3924]

His later work makes me appreciate talented art. He dipped into the philosophy excuse for art.

[@I_am_Lauren]

Philosophy is a totally valid conduit for making art. It's about the process.

[@KOU-ZAI]

I suppose I'm one of those folks who just couldn't get into his pieces, no matter how much others raved about it. It does stand out as unique and I can see the meaning behind it, but sadly, I couldn't appreciate it as art.

[@Moodboard39]

It's art dummy..art is subjective...nobody dictates what is art ...u don't understand geometry either ...everthing based on shapes

[@Moodboard39]

You sound foolish

[@kerrianderson106]

I agree with comment 17

[@firesurfer]

At the end of Mondrian's work, the final minimalist form becomes known as The Look. This is adopted by many companies for product design. Look bicycles, and pedals among others. www.guggenheim.org/arts-curriculum/resource-unit/singular-forms-sometimes-repeated-art-from-1951-to-the-present cycling-passion.com/story-mondrian/ theartgorgeous.com/10-best-art-meets-fashion-collab/image-8/

[@aidandavis7657]

Artistic devolution.

[@OronPeg]

We say PETE (like peace) Mondriaan and not "piète Mondrian" like in French.

[@allak8294]

Was Mondrian influenced by Malevich? Can suprematism and neo-plastisism be considered minimalist movements?

[@rominafalcon513]

Hello

[@Shawn.Grenier]

Hello!

[@s-j-e-1]

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[@rishiraman998]

tiles as medium for purist art phase would great . It doesn't look good on as painting or drawing , made it appear boring to normal eye.

[@HansBomers]

Interesting video even though your Dutch pronunciation is atrocious. 😂 Van Der Leck sounded pretty okay. But the emphasis in Mondriaan is on MON. And the AA is the "long" or "open" A sound.

[@ishanychheda1725]

#pickupanactualpaintbrushmetaprick

[@lauren1779]

Tommy Hillfiger lol

[@LisanneWesseling]

m,

[@ishanychheda1725]

#lamerberglol

[@hansolo2121]

You pronounce 'Mondrian' as if it were a French name. Why do you do this? Please don't... Mondriaan was a Dutchman not a Frenchman. His actual name was Mondriaan. A very Dutch name. He later changed it to Mondrian because people kept spelling it as Mondrian anyway. but that doesn't mean this Dutch name should now all of a sudden be pronounced as a French word or French name. It is not a French word. It is not a French name. It is a Dutch name. The correct pronounciation is 'Mondriaan'.

[@Shawn.Grenier]

Sorry if it's an irritant! I should have tried to pronounce his name in Dutch. As I stated at the beginning of the video, Mondrian is Dutch and I would never say that he's a French artist. I study art history in French (as it is my first language) and, when talking about Mondrian, we pronounce it in a French way. It was an oversight on my part.

[@taylorcallahan2996]

You could have been a little less rude man. It was a simple mistake and plus, the information in the video was good. So try to be more polite about things no one is perfect.

[@ML-ws1wp]

I was going to praise the video for its content but also intended to make this point about the funny pronunciation of Mondrian! 😂 I'm glad I was not the only one to notice. If if wasn't for that, the video would be perfect.

[@artlover3120]

​@@ML-ws1wpguys you need to chill, the guy said French is his first language, it's fine.. I would have pronounced it more badly because I'm neither French nor English

[@kianecarrera5368]

Why did you say piet mondriaan like as if he is french

[@Shawn.Grenier]

I was taught art history mostly in French and I instinctively pronounced his name the way I had learned it. However, that was a mistake, but I do say he's from the Netherlands.

[@vruz]

My only complaint is that the narrator pronounces Piet Mondrian's name in French, as if he were French. He's Dutch.

[@Moodboard39]

Sound same anyway ...and who cares ? U hete to watch the video about the artist now he pronouncing it !!! Why stupid people make a big deal about it ???

[@filipnowak3748]

Neo-plasticism is offensive to me, bad taste and simply disgusting. The fact one of his paintings was hanging upside down tells me everything about this sort of thing “art”. In my opinion it’s perfect style for people who likes to think about their uniqueness and understanding of something which majority people don’t. Behind Composition of Red, blue and yellow is nothing beautiful or worth showing in museum

[@slavamixer1]

It's pronounced "Pete", not "P-8".

[@JoostEurovisionFans]

This looks like a MS paint job by a 10 year old. Everyday people are not impressed with this and don't consider this art. So, then how come "the world" keeps telling us it is? Well, very rich people like Solomon Guggenheim, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, etc heavily financed this movement. The J6wish build Modern Museums in Londen, Paris, New York and used radio and tv to convince the public and "educate" people in this concept. But If we are being honest, cubism is just abstract art. It's not Fine Art. Until you take an artist and create a mythical story about how far ahead and great he was, and boast about it's worth millions, it will be a MS paint job of a 10 year old. Trust me, you and me will never pay 100.000 dollar if we don't know who the artist was. So, the elite heavily pays "art expert's"to claim artist is "revolutionary" and "famous". Until then, it's just painted cubes. Also, these artist like Piet Mondrian made a living by selling normal art, like painted flowers, watercolours, or landscapes. Barely, anybody wanted to buy pained cubes. He sold his first cube painting in 1925. Even museums refused to take his paintings in as art. That is why the elite had to build their own Modern Art museum. In these museums they included art paintings, with animals have sex with humans, and other immoral, weird, scary paintings and call them art. Despicable, immoral, and degenerate art was now going mainstream. Nowadays they have added Boring Ape NFT's as art. But really it is not art. It is another overpriced MS Paint image, that is hyped up to be worth "65 million". Who hyped this up? The same elite and media that is pushing any crap and make you believe it's worth gold. While they buy real gold, you buy stupid hyped trendy sh*t with no value.

[@eneeland]

A third grade student could "paint" Mondrian's vertical/horizontal "pictures". A computer could do it. Anyone could do it. What a waste of a life.

[@hansolo2121]

"What a waste of a life" is exactly what I was thinking when I read your opinion on Mondriaan.

[@gloomycandy101]

That is quite literally the point of De Stijl, simplification of form to the point of universal appeal and ability. The fact that anyone could do it is important.

[@oldtelephone]

*seeing this comment* what a waste of life

[@Moodboard39]

Painter all his life lol more than u every did lol u probably still in diapers

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[@Adrian1a]

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