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London and New York (1938-1944): Broadway Boogie-Woogie and Victory
Mar
8
6:30 PM18:30
Art History Lecture

London and New York (1938-1944): Broadway Boogie-Woogie and Victory

Tuesday, March 8, 2022
6:30 PM

In 1938, with war on the horizon, Mondrian decided to move to London. There he was welcomed by the Circle group, which had published his first essay in English, Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art. The bombardment of London led him to flee to New York City, where he was received with enthusiasm by artists and collectors. Invigorated by the vibrant energy of the city, he worked tirelessly, until his death from pneumonia in 1944.

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Paris (1918-1938): Innovation and Determination
Mar
1
6:30 PM18:30
Art History Lecture

Paris (1918-1938): Innovation and Determination

Tuesday, March 1, 2022
6:30 PM

Although he returned to Paris at the end of the war, Mondrian continued his close collaboration with the artists of De Stijl. The 1920 publication of his booklet, Le Néo-plasticisme, served to disseminate his new theories throughout Europe. In the course of the years that followed, Mondrian’s artistic innovation led to the development of a unique pictorial language. Ever pursuing pure abstraction, he became affiliated with the international art associations, Cercle et Carré and Abstraction-Création.

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Netherlands (1914-1918): De Stijl and Neoplasticism
Feb
22
6:30 PM18:30
Art History Lecture

Netherlands (1914-1918): De Stijl and Neoplasticism

Tuesday, February 22, 2022
6:30 PM

In the summer of 1914, Mondrian returned to the Netherlands to visit his father, who was seriously ill. The outbreak of World War I prevented him from returning to Paris, so he settled in the avant-garde artists’ colony of Laren, where he met Bart van der Leck and Theo van Doesburg. With Van Doesburg, Mondrian founded the journal, De Stijl (The Style), in which he published essays defining his artistic theory, which he named Neoplasticism.

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