Piet Mondrian: Artist of Huge Modern Ideas

I love modern art that is bold and blazing contemporary. One of my favorite painters is Piet Mondrian (1872-1944). His art is so mind-blowing...indeed he took artistic traditionalism and turned it upside down. An interesting fact is that the artist was intensely fascinated with the spiritual aspect of life. Perhaps, this passion propelled him more so into the picaresque modernism that transpired in his work in his later years. In 1912, he moved to Paris and got himself heavily influenced by the aesthetes, i.e. the art of Braque and Picasso. Soon, he broke away from painting that was representational. After a while, Mondrian began a periodical called 'De Stijl.' In this periodical he wrote his essays that described his theory of art, and in a quite unique provocative essence of innovativeness, he came up with the term "neoplasticism." His unique word use was not too much verbosity, but instead amazing, intense feeling. I have always been fascinated with Piet Mondian's unusually bright colors though admittedly in his later years he seems to have progressed thoughtfully into a quite clever use of more and more white and of course black lines. There is a strong sense of higher math about his work and his artistic creations seem often to encapsulate a profound sense of higher science and art fused into a blend that had much intricate enjoyment for the viewer. His design concepts like those of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque have an engaging and remarkable strength and in a sense so much marvelous spiritual intensity that the person seeing Mondrian art can indeed achieve a wonderful sense of joy for herself or himself. Composition N0. 10. 1939-42 (An oil on Canvas) is one of my particular Mondrian favorites. Since I am more and more interested in a spiritual great sense of definitive meaning like the beautiful words of Proverbs 3:5 ("Trust in the Lord.") I find the dynamic powerful qualities of the art of Piet Mondrian with all his neoplasticism and modernism especially thrilling.