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Mondrian

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

noun

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


Mondrian British  
/ ˈmɔndriːaːn /

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Displays have included rarities like a 1792 linen shirt belonging to a son of Marie Antoinette and the Yves Saint-Laurent mid-1960s Mondrian dress that belonged to French singer Juliette Greco.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

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

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2025

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

From New York Times • May 10, 2024

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

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