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Mondrian

[ mawn-dree-ahn, mon-; Dutch mon-dree-ahn ]

noun

  1. Piet [peet], Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, 1872–1944, Dutch painter.


Mondrian

/ ˈmɔndriːaːn /

noun

  1. MondrianPiet18721944MDutchARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Piet (piːt). 1872–1944, Dutch painter, noted esp as an exponent of the abstract art movement De Stijl
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Example Sentences

He was also an art historian, producing monographs on Piet Mondrian, Jasper Johns, Jim Dine and other painters.

Seated by the pool at the Mondrian Hotel in West Hollywood, Berner is a blast of energy from the moment she strides downstairs.

An unlikely artist at a Hollywood body shop channels the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian with a functional mosaic that keeps the needles out of the driveway.

Scholars mentioned her name in the same breath as Kandinsky and Mondrian — a woman stepping toward Modernism before most of her male contemporaries.

When the Dutchman Mondrian arrived in New York in 1940, fleeing first the Nazi occupation of Paris and then the London Blitz, his reputation as one of Europe’s most celebrated artists preceded him.

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