Mondrian
[ mawn-dree-ahn, mon-; Dutch mon-dree-ahn ]
/ ˈmɔn driˌɑn, ˈmɒn-; Dutch ˈmɒn driˌɑn /
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noun
Piet [peet] /pit/, Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, 1872–1944, Dutch painter.
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The exhibit also includes examples of designers borrowing from fine art, as Yves Saint Laurent did with his Mondrian dress.
Even the watermelon he serves me is in keeping with a certain aesthetic—perfectly arranged squares, like a Mondrian painting.
Gosta Peterson's Bohemian Rhapsody: Unpacking a Photographer's '60s Secrets|Lizzie Crocker|September 10, 2014|DAILY BEASTSeen from the air, the landscape looks like a Mondrian grid, but its logic is purely abstract.
Newell was working in a mode of Geometric Abstraction that derives from Malevich and Mondrian.
British Dictionary definitions for mondrian
Mondrian
/ (Dutch ˈmɔndriːaːn) /
noun
Piet (piːt). 1872–1944, Dutch painter, noted esp as an exponent of the abstract art movement De Stijl
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