Mondrian

American  

[mawn-dree-ahn, mon-, mon-dree-ahn] / ˈmɔn driˌɑn, ˈmɒn-, ˈmɒn driˌɑn /

noun

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

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Mondrian British  

/ ˈmɔndriːaːn /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

For all those in search of pop star-infused festive cheer, Mariah Carey’s Holiday Bar opened earlier this month at the Mondrian Hotel’s Skybar.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025

The light show evokes the work of abstract artist Piet Mondrian.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2025

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

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2023

The Central Valley fields, where Valdez labored as a boy, the second of 10 children in an itinerant farmworker family, are ablaze with colors that Mondrian would’ve coveted.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2023

Mondrian has laid out his colored “tiles” along a grid system that appropriately resembles a city map.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson