Piet Mondrian Research Paper

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Artistic movements sweeping Europe were taking on new ideals, theories, and conceptions; however, artists were never drawn so closely together than those engulfed in the cubist destruction of established representation towards an idealistically motivated and theoretically explained mode of creating. Piet Mondrian, a Dutch artist, born Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, in Amersfoort, Netherlands monumentally impacted the movement towards spiritual exploration and art, and was equally influenced by the other groups of twentieth century artists with similar quests (Deicher). Mid-transformation and spiritual investigation, Mondrian produced Trees (1912). A piece that both exhibited painting techniques of where he had been and foreshadowed where his inherent …show more content…
As he developed his landscapes, they slowly were divested of their trees, houses, and signs of human existence once again exploiting man’s inferiority to the vast space of nature. “His confrontation in 1909 with the infinity of nature coincides with his joining the Netherlands Theosophical Society, where man’s union with the infinitude of the universe was a central problem,” perceives Hans L.C. Jaffe, a professor of the modern and contemporary art and an accomplished art historian. The Theosophical movement began in 1908 by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, and Mondrian joined the Dutch branch of the society immediately (Faivre). Paralleling his quest for spirituality and conquering the metaphysical, theosophy illustrated Mondrian perfectly. Defined as the profound knowledge of nature stemming beyond empirical evidence, theosophy anthropomorphized a rare historical religion that expressed “wisdom concerning God or Divine things” (from theos, “God”, and Sophia, “wisdom”) (Faivre). During this journey, Mondrian continued his pursuit for simplification and radicalization of reality accompanying the theosophical belief of universality advocating that to perceive the world, one is dependent on the metaphysical fundamentals of insight as opposed to intellectual, scientific reasoning. While seemingly nonrational to many, metaphysical truths disable the inherent perfecting of the human mind to recreate the world and the nature around us; it urges mankind towards altruistic recognition. It made Mondrian an artist that painted what he saw, not what he thought he saw or wanted to
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