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Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute

Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute

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In the early 1920s, surrounded by the roaring streets of avant-garde Paris, Piet Mondrian began creating what would become some of the most recognizable abstract paintings of the 20th century. With rectangles of primary colors against a dazzling white background, this was geometric abstraction in its purest form. These revolutionary compositions exhilarated, intoxicated, confused, and enraged the international public—and changed the course of modern art forever.   Now, for the first time, Mondrian emerges…