The Dutch artist Piet Mondrian: A Life in 10 Snippets - Art History School
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Piet Mondrian biography: This art history video about the Dutch artist, Piet Mondrian covers his life in 10 fascinating snippets of information. The famous artist Piet Mondrian was one of the pioneers of abstract art. Born in 1872 in The Netherlands, he was the son of an art teacher. Trees fascinated him and he produced many paintings of them. He loved the structure of the branches and this structure had a bearing on his later abstract work. Piet Mondrian loved jazz and was the founder of the De Stijl movement. Eventually, he would develop his famous abstract paintings based on black lines and the three primary colours; red, yellow and blue. One of his most famous paintings was Broadway Boogie Woogie.
Theo van Doesburg, the artist and art critic was his friend, and he was also influenced in his painting by Theosophy, Cubism and Suprematism.
Piet Mondrian's most famous painting and his last was Broadway Boogie Woogie painted in 1942. This painting combined his love of jazz with his love of order and balance and was also influenced by his time in the USA.
This video is designed for students and those wanting an introduction into art history.
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My Art History teacher made us watch this video for school for homework. I never thought I'd enjoy doing homework so much
That's really nice of you to say so. Cheers
There is so much interesting learning in the world. School takes a great thing and ruins it. Turns it boring and sucks the life out of it. So happy that your teacher is trying to make it interesting and enjoyable again. College can be slightly better. Learning on my own outside of school has always been the best except for Arabic. All my teachers were fantastic.
@@elsagrace3893 I'm excited for college (that is if a graduate this year) and yes, some of my teachers are really good at keeping us students interested because they're really passionate about the subject themselves, makes it a whole lot easier. Sadly enough i don't have many teachers like that this year :(
Thank you for a most interesting channel love watching some artists I have never heard of so it's great to expand ones knowledge look forward to more
I had no idea what Mondrian's early non-abstract work looks like. Thank you for this revelation!
You are welcome
Wow, for the first time in my life I’m looking at an abstract piece of art and actually appreciate it. Thank you so much
You are so welcome! Thanks
MY 2ND GRADE STUDENTS IN MEMPHIS, TN SAY THAT PIET MONDRIAN'S ART IS THE BEST THING THAT WE HAVE EVER SEEN!!!!!
That's great. I'm pleased they enjoyed it. Cheers
I love his flowers and landscapes.
Yes, they are very interesting indeed.
Those gestures!
I NEED to see this man present the weather.
Cheers
One thing I truly admire about this video is your consistant insistance on returing to what Peit was actually profiting from within his artistic endevours. This information gives much needed context when digging though all of his life works. Seeing him produce some pieces that didn't quite refect his values makes more sence to me now.
Really pleased you appreciated the video. Cheers
What a happy chap the presenter is 😊
I try my best. Cheers Paul
I have been to Den Haag and seen Mondrian’s paintings. His love of order and balance are very appealing to me. I am enjoying your videos very much!
He certainly is the master of balance and order, glad you are liking my videos.
Watching this vid for my SA for Art and taking note so easy .
Thanks to the Presenter
Love from India
Really pleased you like my video, please subscribe of you haven't already. Cheers
@@ArtHistorySchool Done, don't worry you are an amazing anchor.
Also I have daughter who loves the, as she puts it, “organized chaos” of things like vineyards, a flock of birds taking off and… jazz!! I bet she’d love Piet Mondrian work. Thanks for encouraging our love of art!
You are very welcome, your daughter sounds great. Cheers
Not necessarily one of my favorite painters but I admit he had a huge impact on the abstract boom that was to follow the war. Well done. Thank you.
Yes, his work is not to everyone's taste, but glad you enjoyed the video. Cheers Paul
People just want a pair of "Air Jordan's", no matter how stupid the shoes look. They actually hold their value and go up in price...
Abstract "art", was a financial investment. This stuff was NOT hung in the main living quarters...ever 🤣
You were paying for a "name" and the prestige behind that name.
It commands ZERO wall power (with exception to WTF were you thinking!?).
Same goes for Jackson Pollock. I walk right past that crap.
This is also why I stopped donating to the Toledo Art Museum. If you going to waste your money on nonsense like this, I'm done.
Thanks for expanding your stated audience beyond school students. I am 64 and have followed, read, and observed visual arts since age 10. Nonetheless, I enjoy your videos and learn from them.
Yes, I am beginning to realise many people beyond school students enjoy my videos. That's great to know. Pleased to know you enjoy my videos. Cheers Paul
The world needs more humans like you M. Priestley. Thanks for that Mondrian art life roundup. Now i understand.
Thankyou
I shall share this with my students. The length is perfect and the content easily digestible.
That's great, I hope they enjoy it. Cheers Paul
@@ArtHistorySchool I am a college professor of music but I also want my students to be art savvy so your video will help in that endeavor. Thanks again.
@@stephenjablonsky1941 I thought you were referring to school students originally, it's brilliant to know that university music students are having their knowledge of art broadened in such a way. I guess it's the Jazz link. Cheers Paul
Not just an abstract artist but a REAL artist as well. The tree drawings are mind blowing 👍❤️
Yes, he was very versatile. Interesting, implication you make.
@@ArtHistorySchool Hi there I didn't mean my comments to sound somewhat flippant and degrading to other aspiring artists but what I really meant to say was that Piet was a complete artist in the very true sense of the word. He understood every angle, shape, perspective and size of every work he created I would say a complete artist in every sense of the word. This makes me appreciate his work even more. In fact being a cyclist too, Mondrian inspired a a whole generation of cyclist with his print that was used for the La Vie Claire team in France from circa 1985
I love most of his work--always have and always will. But I don't like his later work. All through his career he was heavily influenced by various 'isms'. Too much so, in my opinion. When he started to invent his own 'ism'-- he lost me completely. I felt that his work had lost it's strong emotional impact, and became too logical and intellectually driven.
I'm afraid I find "Mill at Night" more appealing than his later work. But it's still interesting to learn how the artists you instruct on develop over their lifetimes.
His pre-abstract work is great
The neoplasticism work of Piet Mondeian was probably the first art that I fell in love with. But this is the first time I have seen how he got to this from his early work, through the progression of examples shown. It actually makes purfect sense that the 'compositions' seems to have come from the light shining through tree branches. Thank you for that.
I must admit I followed a similar path, I too was fascinated how the early drawings of trees led to the later abstraction.
I love all his works, from earlier on
Yes, it was interesting how his ideas developed
Interestingly I find the ‘diamond’ works disorientating and the most minimal the most satisfying. Jazz was changing massively towards his death. I wonder what he felt about it. Brilliant video so thanks again.
I believe it was his colleague Van Doesburg who first created the diamond shaped canvases. But I agree with you I'm not sure it works.
That last painting reminds me of the colourful circle that would be on TV when you'd be waiting for programs to start in the morning.
Very True
I really appreciate how u dress as the artist u r featuring. Great work i am learning a lot. Cheers
Thank you so much 😀
Fascinating and very informative. So interesting about the early trees influences and Mondrian's love of jazz. Thank you for your hard work making this for us.
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers
i have now seen 5 videos of yours back to back & its amazing what you are doing keep them coming.
I certainly will. Thanks for the kind comment. Cheers Paul
love these videos, so much information condensed into a short time.very educational
Glad you like them! Cheers
great video again Paul. love the paintings, so inspiring, i think im going to copy one of Mondrian's composition with my children and hang it in my house! i love them.
Thanks again for your effort.
Diana
You are welcome, i hope your children enjoy their painting. Cheers Paul
Amazing video explaining evolution of artist's expression. Just what i was looking for. Thank you!
Really pleased you enjoyed my video. Cheers Paul
Mondrian did what we all need to be doing right now, growing, even with tragic wars at home and abroad underway. I would have loved to dance and paint with him as a friend and colleague, and collect his works, both tree and Neoplastic periods. At least there's a chance of doing a little of the third. It's nice to get a glimpse into the thinking behind his works when the artist is no longer with us. Thanks for your hard work and dedication to task, Paul. Greatly appreciated. 💖
Many thanks. Cheers
I love your videos! It would have been wonderful to have had them back in the ‘60s when I was in art college. 😊 At least I have the time to appreciate them now. Thank you! ❤️ Shirley
Really pleased you enjoy my videos. Cheers
A very talented artist, Thanks Paul. From New Zealand
You are welcome. Cheers from England
Very informative and easy to understand :)
Glad it was helpful!
that last painting is so great
Certainly was
I recently found your channel. I truly enjoy them.
I feel i am in art history class, learning so much.
Thank you so much 😊
You are so welcome!
Absolutely love this channel! Helps me explain and understand why
I love art so much! Cheeeeers!
Thank you! Cheers!
Wow your videos are amazing I was searching for ages a Chanel like that !!!! Please keep doing this amazing work !!
I certainly will, glad you enjoy my videos. Cheers Paul
Phenomenal Art History!!
And beautiful narration and pictures. Thank you
Many thanks! Glad you enjoyed my videos have you checkout my other ones? Cheers
Paul Just subscribed.Your comments about Mondrian,s love of jazz and order clearly gives incite as to his Broadway Boogie Woogie Thank you.Great video.
Really pleased you enjoyed the video and thanks for the sub. Cheers
A slight error regarding the V-1 and the London Blitz. The buzz bombs didn't hit London till much later in the War. Othewise a superb video!
Point taken. Glad you enjoyed the video. Cheers Paul
I love the way you talk about art; you share and know a lot, making it interesting and bombastic, so we can hear and learn in a short time. That's amazing 👏
Thank you so much 😀
Ground breaking work. To arrive at that style must have been incredibly difficult. The artist journey is only known to the one going through it.
It was quite a journey, wasn't it?
@@ArtHistorySchool I'm an artist and I have reached the abstract stage of creativity and find all the hidden secrets of image and perception in the abstract form. Some of these truth are difficult to accept. Some amazing and some unbelievable. So, the visual vocabulary of Mondrian is now clear to me. I'm thrilled. And feel special for having arrived at it.
I’ve been binging your videos this week and I don’t think I’ll be stopping anytime soon. They’re just too good and I’m learning so much!!! 💗
Wow, that's great. I hope you enjoy them all. Cheers Paul
brilliant video ! love all your videos and the passion for art.
Thank you so much 😀
Thanks. I really enjoyed it. One of my favorite painters.
Glad you enjoyed it! He was an interesting painter.
Excellent video Paul, thank you!
You agree very welcome Ron
Thank you, this was absolutely fascinating!
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers
Karen Phillips it was
It's so good to see this after seeing the Tate Modern exhibition on Mondrian and Hilma Af Klint. Paul's elucidation of Mondrian's work is really appreciated. It was seeing his early work in Tate Margate a few years ago that I opened up to his work. His trees are very uplifting to me, more so that the geometrics. Composition with colour fields in here when seen on the wall was so beautiful, lovely to see again this morning via Art School.
Thank you, pleased you enjoyed my video. I too love Mondrian's work especially the transition period from figurative to abstract. Cheers
Great video, love the "snippet" format. Cheers from Paris !
Really pleased you enjoyed the video. Cheers from Somerset, England
That is good
Yes
Excellent presentation. I saw a "realistic" painting in the Venice Guggenheim of a house on a street at night with one lamplight lit. It somehow enchanted me. Wanted to own it. I'm a musician. Love the rhythms and color harmonies in his work.
Many thanks. He was an amazing artist.
Wonderful video on the life of Mondrian, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Really very good, engaging, informative... UA-cam Utopia! I have admired 'Fox Trot B, with Black, Red, Blue, and Yellow' (1929) in the Yale University Art Gallery for many years and yet I have never quite been able to give voice to WHY I love it so much. This helps me get closer to the context of Mondrian. Grateful, and subscribed.
Thank you for subscribing and for liking my video. Mondrian had this unique ability to create balance and harmony between colour and shape, which I guess is the basis of much great art.
Thanks it was great. From Richmond VA USA.
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers from Somerset, England
One of my favorite artists....thank you for this!
My pleasure!
What a brilliant summary! Enough to make you want more.
That's good, glad you enjoyed it. Cheers
I loooved this video, thank you!
You're so welcome!
Enjoyed the video very much, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers
Your video was really great . It’s helped me so much to understand the artist .
Glad you liked it! Cheers
I adore this so much! Thank you!!!
You are so welcome!
I'm stunned, how lively your videos are. My beloved wife says, when I watch your videos I as concentrated as if I was painting, but with a smile on my face! Thank you for a wonderful time, Greetings from Christian 🎨
Many thanks Christian. Cheers
Learned a lot from this Paul, not just about Mondrian's work- but also about how to talk about any artist in general. Not too much beginner's info, but not too esoteric and specialized either. Really enjoyable! P.S. I noticed your patreon link in your video descriptions is broken. It attached a "!" at the end of the URL.
Hi, I taught art for many years and I suppose pitching the video at the right level comes almost naturally. However, getting the balance right can be difficult. I had a professor of art history pick me on a couple of minor points in one video, but my videos at not aimed at that level. Most people want to know about the obvious bits, but also some context and some of the more unusual elements about the artist. Good luck with your talks about artists and many thanks for pointing out the broken link. Cheers Paul
Hi again, I just had a look at a couple of your videos. Interesting. Could I offer a little advice? It might be an idea to explain much more about Enneagramin in each video description. I have never heard the term before. A UA-cam description serves two purposes, one it describes and informs people about the video and what it is about. So imagine you are describing the video to someone who has no idea what you are talking about, that should be your description. At least a couple of paragraphs. Think about keywords, the words people are going to use to find your video, they should be in your titles and description. The second point is UA-cam uses the description to categorise your video, the more information it has the more likely your video will be recommended by UA-cam. Apologies if you already know all this stuff. Cheers Paul
@@ArtHistorySchool Oh thanks for the insight, Paul. I learned quite a bit from watching the composition of your videos. I think you are right about the Descriptions!
It is an interesting challenge to figure out a strategy for starting with UA-cam content-- between making insider content for an established niche and making content that invites new people into the niche. I really liked the balance you found in inviting people into the art history conversation. People like Klimt feel more alive to me now than before.
I like his early work...I like that style... may not be so *up town* but I like it
I like his early work too.
Geometry teacher in Arkansas here. My class will do a Mondrian style artwork as an assignment because it's related to the parallel and perpendicular lines that we've been studying.
That's wonderful, give your students my best wishes. Cheers from Somerset, England.
And for the children , Thank you so much 😊 🙌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😘🌹Cheeeeeeeeers 🌹
Thanks. Cheers
Thanks Paul! Nice video👍🏻
Cheers, Paul
I like Mondrian's final piece.
Yes, it's brilliant
Thank you. It's a pleasure to see your videos 😊
My pleasure 😊 I'm glad you like them
Such a good video, thanks for making this video!
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers
Thank you so so so much!!
You are welcome
Absolutely amazing video . Thank you🌹
You are so welcome
I always enjoyed his work but didn't know much about him. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed the video. Cheers
very informative and well structured video, thank you
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers
As a Dutch person, it's hilarious to hear the presenter try to pronounce the Dutch names... We're really not angry German kampfcomandants ;-) Bless him for trying tough ;-)
I hold my hands up. I have never been great with accents. I guess it's the same when people try to speak with a Yorkshire accent. I'm from Yorkshire originally and our accent is quite guttural which probably explains the 'German' sounding accent.
@@ArtHistorySchool Cheers for this great informative video ! 🙏🏼
Very interesting, Paul. I like learning about Artists. I like Cubism and Abstract. Thanks, Paul.😉
Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers
Thanks for the explanation, i understand a bit of his paintings. Cheers.
You're very welcome
Awesome. Thank you. I learned a lot!
Glad it was helpful! Cheers
Excellent video! Thank you so much, Paul!! USA
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers
His painting went through so radical transformations.
Thanks
Thanks, very enjoyable video and presenter
Glad you enjoyed it!
His paintings are amazing, i learnt about them in school
They certainly are
Such a great video ❤️
Glad you liked it!!
Very well structured video.
Cheers
You and Piet made today's bus commute a joyful activity for me. I'm still amazed about the transition from paintings of realistic trees to the tile-like paintings that made him famous. Something inside me still makes it difficult to accept the latter, but thanks to you I have a much deeper understanding of its meaning. Really, a big thanks.
Many thanks, really pleased your commute was a little more interesting. Cheers
Thanks! excellent l enjoyed a lots this painter 👩🎨 interesting his life .
Cheers 🥂 greetings from Chile 🇨🇱
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers from England
Thank you 🙏 , wonderful 💚💜💙
Thanks, I'm really glad you enjoyed the video.
Great overview - thank you
Glad it was helpful! Cheers
Excellent videos.Very qwell curated
Thank you kindly!
Informative video. thank you
Glad it was helpful! Cheers
Love all his work.!!❤👌
He was a great artist
@@ArtHistorySchool yes he was.. Beautiful documentaries of all the amazing artists we all love and appreciate, you share with all of us. Thank you.!! When Mondrian work started changing , and was developing into more graphic expressions.. Really loved the playfulness.. Of line and color
Really amazing and beautiful.❤
Brilliant!!! Love this!
Many thanks
Nice I need tis for online school lol 😂
This was actually really interesting 🧐
No art work is stupid, just think you could be doing trigonometry
@Gamer Star c'mon art in schools comeback gotta be the most wholesome comment in this comment section lol
lol me too
it is intersting
@Gamer City well thats rude, lots of people have art as their favourite sibject!
Brilliant!
Thank you
I would love to see a video about Paul Klee. He has always been one of my most favorites, although his body of work isn't huge. Nonetheless, his work is unique and exceptional. Also, in the same vein, Amedeo Modigliani is amazing as well. I love your channel and your approach to art and the lives of artists. :-)
Paul Klee is on my list amongst many others. I'll get there eventually. Cheers Paul
amazing explanation
Glad you liked it Cheers
great video!
Many thanks. Cheers Paul
Thank you very much that was very interesting. 😊
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers
Another interesting presentation. I say this as a painter and writer.
Thank you
Excellent content!
Much appreciated!
love you channel.cheers!
Thank you! Cheers!
GREAT VIDEO
Glad you enjoyed it
Great!
Cheers
Very compelling and well made video. It was really interesting to see how Piet Mondrian developed his art into the abstract form he's so well known for. As a Dutchmen, I would suggest to pronounce his name "Piet" a little different. Instead of something like "Piyet" it should be more pronounced as the English name "Pete" instead, which sounds close to the Dutch pronunciation of 'Piet'.
EDIT: Scrolling down, I now see that more Dutch people have commented on the pronunciation. Never mind, I'm sure you've got the point. But it is a wonderful video non the less!
Glad you liked the video, I've noted your point about the pronunciation, but can't do anything about it now. Cheers