Böcker av Susanne Deicher

A key figure in the international avant-garde, Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was at once an extraordinary painter and leading art theoretician whose influence resonates to this day. Coining the term "Neo-plasticism", he pursued a style of painting composed only of primary colors against a grid of black vertical and horizontal lines and a white base background. Mondrian's vision was that this essential painting would help to achieve a society in which art as such has no place, but rather exists for the total realization of "beauty." With stints in Amsterdam, Paris, London, and New York, Mondrian drew upon the modern metropolis and modern music, especially jazz, as points of inspiration. In 1917, he cofounded De Stijl, originally a publication, and subsequently a circle of practitioners, committed to a strictly geometrical art of horizontals and verticals. With key works and succinct texts, this introductory book presents Mondrian's distinctive and pioneering oeuvre, an abiding inspiration for fashion, art, architecture, and design, from White Stripes album covers to Yves Saint Laurent dresses. 2016 (c) US Mondrian/Holtzman Trust

Weniger war mehr für Piet Mondrian. Mit einem strikt limitierten Fundus an Bildelementen - die Farben Rot, Gelb und Blau, schwarze Linien, weißer Grund - strebte er nach "universeller Harmonie" und schuf eine neue Dimension avantgardistischer Abstraktion."Die Emotion der Schönheit wird immer behindert durch die Erscheinung eines ,Dinges', deshalb muss das Ding aus der bildnerischen Darstellung entfernt werden."- Piet Mondrian