Mondrian was influenced by Vincent’s revelatory letters and drawings and, as he evolved into his “abstract-realist” style, attempted to bridge what they would each come to represent.

Peter Schjeldahl reviews “Piet Mondrian: A Life,” by Hans Janssen, a new biography that excavates the genius of the Dutch modernist painter.

Mondrian writes in one letter, 'I want to get as close as possible to the truth and am therefore abstracting everything until I get to the foundations…of things’. There is a feeling in this exhibition ...

Image of a flower with blue petals on a blue background. I can almost feel it, beneath my parka. Not quite, but almost: burgeoning, blossoming, a murmur of springtime. At the Solomon R. Guggenheim ...

Mondrian, born in 1872, was a noted exponent of the 1920s abstract art movement known as "De Stijl" and was one of the most influential figures in modern art in the 20th century.

One of Mondrian’s earliest true abstracts is “Composition No IX” (1913).On loan from New York’s MoMA, this grey and ochre puzzle of interlocking shapes — rectangles, hemispheres ...