I very much like Arp's things. I consider him the only 'pur… - Piet Mondrian

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I very much like Arp's things. I consider him the only 'pure' artist after Neo/Plasticism.

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Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan (after 1912: Piet Mondrian). (March 7, 1872 – February 1, 1944) was a Dutch painter starting in Dutch impressionism but soon started to develop abstraction from his landscape paintings. He became an inspiring leader of the De Stijl art movement and group, together with Theo van Doesburg. Mondrian proclaimed 'Neo Plasticism' as a completely new, Abstract art style.

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Native Name: Pieter Cornelis (Piet) Mondriaan

Alternative Names: Mondrian • Mondriaan • Piet Cornelis Mondrian • Piet Cornelies Mondrian • Piet Mondriaan • Pieter Cornelis Mondrian • Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan

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Theo van Doesburg Paul Klee Wassily Kandinsky Fernand Léger Hans Hofmann

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Environment, education, experience, make men conscious of passing reality but overwhelm their intuitive capacity when this is not very strong.

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty; he is conscious of the fact that the emotion of beauty is cosmic, universal. This conscious recognition has for its corollary an abstract plasticism, for man adheres only to what is universal.

Nature moves me deeply; I paint nature (now) only in a different way..

I very much like Arp's things. I consider him the only 'pure' artist after Neo/Plasticism. - Piet Mondrian

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