The authors studied a series of works by abstract painter Mondrian that depict the same tree but in increasingly less realistic ways. His 1911 work “De Grijze Boom” (“The Gray Tree”) shows ...

By 1911 he was already at the point where he only used a series of angled ... when he painted the same tree, those lines got a bit less tree-like. Piet Mondrian painted the same tree in "The ...

Piet Mondrian painted the same tree in “The gray tree ... tree”), Mondrian had reached a point in the series where he was representing the tree with just a series of black lines against a gray ...

This hints that realism is not the only requirement for a convincing tree image. A highly abstract example from Piet Mondrian’s series offers a glimpse at this idea. Even with just a few black lines ...

Tableau I by Piet Mondrian, 1921. [Image: Kunstmuseum Den Haag] When I saw Mondrian’s 1911 “Gray Tree,” I immediately recognized something about trees that I had struggled to describe.

Mitchell Newberry has published research on tree branching supported by University ... I’m starting to think so. Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century abstract artist and art theorist obsessed ...

Piet Mondrian’s final trio of paintings was tinted by the last place the Dutch abstract artist called home: New York. Made in quick succession after World War II pushed him to move to Manhattan ...

While resident in London (he arrived in 1938 before the Nazi invasion of France), Piet ... Mondrian became the face of a marketing windfall. In 1965 Yves Saint Laurent launched a series of ...

The same is true of the Dutch-born painter Piet Mondrian ... but had a series of close friendships with handsome younger men. Some of these relationships may have been physical. Mondrian ...

A new biography of one of the quintessential artists of the 20th century. By Dwight Garner On the surface, Piet Mondrian and Hilma af Klint made very different work. But an exhibition at Tate ...