Borrowing liberally from Wikipedia here, Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for a pioneer of 20th-century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.
When World War I ended in 1918, Mondrian returned to France, where he would remain until 1938. Immersed in post-war Paris culture of artistic innovation, he flourished and fully embraced the art of pure abstraction for the rest of his life. Mondrian began producing grid-based paintings in late 1919, and in 1920, the style for which he came to be renowned began to appear.
Yves Saint Laurent's Mondrian Fashion Collection
The Mondrian Collection was designed by French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent (1936–2008) in 1965. This collection was a homage to the work of several modernist artists. Part of this collection were six cocktail dresses that were inspired by the paintings of Piet Mondrian. Because these six shift dresses played a major role in this collection, the collection is called the Mondrian Collection.
The Mondrian collection was widely published in many fashion magazines, with one dress featuring on the cover of Vogue in 1965. Mondrian style dresses became very popular, with many mass manufacturers producing copies of the designs for lower prices, which were then widely circulated.
Today
The designs migrated from dresses to other forms of fashion. Today, the colors within black lines may be found in a full range of fashion and decor items.
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