HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Piet Mondrian was born Pieter Cornelias Mondrian Jr. in the Netherlands in 1872 and studied at an art academy called the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam from 1892 to 1897. Mondrian's works up to 1908 were naturalistic, incorporating successive influences of academic landscapes and still-life painting, Dutch Impressionism and Symbolism.
In 1908 he began to make annual trips to Domburg in Zeeland and in 1909, he experimented with Pointillism. By 1911 Mondrian had begun to work in a Cubist style and decided to move to Paris after seeing original Cubist…
