Piet Piet Mondrian Mondrian

was a was a Dutch Dutch Artist. Artist.

He painted He painted the the

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where he where he lived.lived.

He started to simplify his paintings

• The things he painted became less recognisable

He was more interested in the

shapes, and the balance

(composition) of the picture.

He was starting to make his paintings become

abstract.

• Mondrian was one of the first artists to make completely abstract paintings.

• He started to change the colors in his paintings.

• He used black and white squares and black outlines.

• His designs were becoming more and more simple.

• Mondrian painted lots of paintings in this style.

• They had primary colors, black lines, and lots of white areas.

• This is one of the paintings that Mondrian made after he had moved to New York.

• It is called ‘Broadway Boogie Woogie’