Mondrian – the master of line and color blocking!
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) came from a family of a church school principal in Amersfoort, Holland. He began painting at the age of 14, became a local high school art teacher at the age of 20, and began working in academic and realism, then drew from Impressionism, Symbolism and Post-Impressionism. It was not until 1911, after seeing the early Cubist works of Picasso and Braque in Holland, that he rushed to Paris the following year and began to paint according to the Cubist method. Initially, he tried to depict landscapes in the purest primary colors of red, yellow, blue and green.…