WHEN he was 68, Piet Mondrian arrived in New York, having fled Nazi-occupied Europe. He was celebrated by such 20th-century American greats as Ad Reinhardt, Jasper Johns and Mark Rothko, who called ...

“..Mondrian, however, is certainly best known for his later, iconic, abstract works made up of rectangular fields formed by black, white, and the primary colors red ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This hidden math in some abstract paintings may even underlie our ability to recognise such artwork as depictions of trees, ...

While resident in London (he arrived in 1938 before the Nazi invasion of France), Piet Mondrian caught the eye of a brainy female Oxford University graduate. Henry Moore, his Belsize Park neighbour, ...

Galleries love putting work by different artists ‘in conversation’ (ie, side by side). Which is a shame, because it almost never works, and almost always ends up with less of a conversation and more ...

Piet Mondrian, “Windmill in Twilight” (c. 1907-1908), oil on canvas, 67.5 x 117.5 cm; © Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague, the Netherlands (all images courtesy ...

For his contribution to abstract art, Piet Mondrian is regularly regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. But there's much more to this Dutch painter than the seemingly ...

That was one of numerous revelations highlighted by conservators at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland, who have concluded a multi-year research project that preceded a retrospective of the ...