Chrysanthemum

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Chrysanthemum

Piet MondrianLinkedCulture matchlcp-f35c01703d5a

Date
1900
Medium
Watercolor and charcoal
Department
European Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
3181

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Piet Mondrian is famous for his paintings of irregular black grids on white backgrounds interspersed with rectangles in bright primary colors. Less familiar are the still lives and landscapes from earlier in his career. Chrysanthemum of 1900 reveals his early taste for naturalism inherited from the Hague School but ultimately indebted to the influence of the French Barbizon painters. In an autobiographical essay, Mondrian confessed: I was always a realist . . . I always enjoyed painting flowers, not bouquets, but a single flower at a time. This austere presentation of the chrysanthemum is nonetheless innovative. Mondrian would renew his interest in flower painting again around 1908, but he substituted the natural brownish palette used here for a brighter, more artificial one. Netherlands, Europe

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Gift of Bruce B. Dayton (Offered as a Centennial Gift)

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