Nicholas Fox Weber.
NICHOLAS FOX WEBER
MONDRIAN: HIS LIFE, HIS ART, HIS QUEST FOR THE ABSOLUTE (2024)
Piet Mondrian (born 1872) was the 20th century’s leading pioneer of abstract art. Originally a figurative painter, he changed direction when he moved from his native Netherlands to Paris in 1912. Developing what he called pure plastic art, he eventually reduced his work to a formal vocabulary of three primary colours (red, blue and yellow), three primary values (black, white and grey) and the two primary directions (horizontal and vertical). His work had great impact not only on abstract art, but also on modernist design, architecture and fashion.
The Wall Street Journal wrote of Fox Weber’s biography of Mondrian: "This book will be a treasure-chest for art historians. Mr. Weber is a brisk and entertaining narrator . . . . The author's comprehensive command of material, his subtle pictorial insight and his ability to bring any given canvas to energetic life, [are] a gift particularly valuable considering how very few Mondrian canvases are currently accessible to the general public."
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Nicholas Fox Weber (born 1947) is the Executive Director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. He took his BA in art history at Columbia University and is the author of fourteen books on 20th century art. These include biographies of Mondrian and Le Corbusier, and a book on the Art of Babar.
