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Piet Mondrian<\/strong>\u00a01872-1944<\/span><\/p>\n Dutch pioneer of\u00a0abstract<\/a>\u00a0art, who developed from early\u00a0landscape<\/a>\u00a0pictures to geometric abstract works of a most rigorous kind. Born in Amersfoort, Utrecht. Studied\u00a0painting<\/a>\u00a0at the Amsterdam\u00a0Academy<\/a>\u00a01892-4 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 <\/span>coloured and sometimes\u00a0pointillist<\/a>\u00a0style in 1908, joined the Theosophic Organisation in 1909 and made some works of a\u00a0Symbolist<\/a>\u00a0character. First one-man exhibition with C.R.H. Spoor and Jan Sluyters at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1909. Lived in Paris 1912-14; was influenced by\u00a0Cubism<\/a>, which he carried to the point of abstraction. Returned to Holland in 1914 and step by step evolved a more simplified abstract style which he called\u00a0Neo-Plasticism<\/a>, restricted to the three primary <\/span>colours and to a grid of black vertical and horizontal lines on a white ground; associated with van Doesburg in the\u00a0de Stijl<\/a><\/span>movement 1917-25. Lived 1919-38 in Paris where he joined the group Abstraction-Cr\u00e9ation in 1931. Moved to London 1938-40, living near Gabo and Ben Nicholson, then in 1940 to New York where he started to develop a more <\/span>colourful style, with <\/span>coloured lines and syncopated rhythms. Died in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n