Mondrian, Red Tree, 1908. Mondrian, Grey Tree, 1911.

Mondrian, Red Tree, 1908

Mondrian, Grey Tree, 1911

Mondrian, Apple Tree, 1912

Mondrian, Composition II, 1913

Mondrian, Composition V (The Sea), 1915

Mondrian, Composition 10

Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue1921, o/c, 15 x 13”

Piet Mondrian “the struggle toward unity of cosmic dualities and the religious symmetry undergirding the material universe”

TheosophistLine and color

Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue1921, o/c, 15 x 13”

Piet Mondrian

Composition with Large Blue Plane, Red, Black, Yellow, and Gray, 1921, o/c, 23 x 19”

Mondrian, Lozenge Composition, 1921o/c 30 3/8 x 30 in.

vertical axis 42 1/2 in.

Lozenge Composition withRed, Black, Blue, and YellowOil on canvas 30 3/8 x 30 in.vertical axis 42 1/2 in.

Mondrian, Composition With Blue, Black, Yellow and Grey, 1920

Composition With Red, Blue, Black, Yellow and Grey, 1921 

MondrianBroadway Boogie-Woogie

1942

Architecture

The International Style

Holland, De Stijl - Gerrit Rietveld

Germany, The Bauhaus – Walter Gropius

France – Le Corbusier

USA – Mies van der Rohe

The International Style

DE STIJL

Gerrit Rietveld

dematerialization

Shroeder House,

Utrecht, Holland, 1923

UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites

"One of the outstanding achievements of the new constructional technique has been the abolition

of the separating function of the wall. Instead of making the walls the element of support,

as in a brick-built house, our new space-saving construction transfers the whole load of the structure

to a steel or concrete framework. Thus the role of the walls becomes restricted to that of mere screens

stretched between the upright columns of this framework to keep out rain, cold, and noise. ...

Systematic technical improvement in steel and concrete …. are steadily reducing the area occupied by

supporting members. This, in turn …. allows rooms to be much better lit. It is, therefore, only logical that

the old type of window—a hole that had to be hollowed out of the full thickness of a supporting wall—

should be giving place more and more to the continuous horizontal casement ….. And as a direct result

of the growing preponderance of voids over solids, glass is assuming an ever greater structural

importance....In the same way the flat roof is superseding the old penthouse roof with its tiled or slated

gables.”

Gerrit Rietveld,Schroder House, Utrecht, Holand,1923

Mondrian chair (Blue and Red chair)

DE STIJLRietveld Shroeder House

Walter Gropius

Gropius House, Lincoln, Mass., 1938

The Bauhaus Workshop Wing

The BauhausWalter Gropius1919-33

Dessau Building, 1919-1925

Germany

The Bauhaus

Walter Gropius

Bauhaus Building in Dessau, 1919-25

Marcel Bruer’s Wassily (Kandinsky) chair

Marianne Brandt, silver, 1924,Anni Albers, weavings, 1920’s

Bauhaus Products, 1920’s

BAUHAUS

Le Corbusier

Villa Savoye, France, 1929-30

Le Corbusier, Contemporary City for Three Million Inhabitants, 1922

Plan voisin for Paris - 1925

Mies van der Rohe

German Pavillion, Barcelona (1929)

Meissenhof apartments, 1927

Barcelona Chair, 1927

“less is more”

Mies van der Rohe

German Pavillion, Barcelona (1929)

Barcelona Chair, 1927

“less is more”

Lake Shore Drive Apartment Houses,Chicago, 1950-52

functionalism

Edgar Kaufmann House, Fallingwater, Pennsilvania, 1935-37

Frank Lloyd Wright

SCULPTUREConstantin Brancusi

"Mlle Pogany. version I" - (1913) (after a marble of 1912). Bronze with black patina 17 1/4 x 8 1/2 x 12 1/2" (43.8 x 21.5 x 31.7 cm), on limestone base 5 3/4 x 6 1/8 x 7 3/8" (14.6 x 15.6 x 18.7 cm)

The Newborn. version I, 1920 (close to the marble of 1915)Bronze5 3/4 x 8 1/4 x 5 3/4" (14.6 x 21 x 14.6 cm)

"Torso" - (1917)

Beginning of the World, c. 1920Marble, metal, and stone30 x 20 x 20 in. (76.2 x 50.8 x 50.8 cm)Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

Torso of A Young Man, 1924Polished bronze on stone and wood bases18 1/8 x 11 1/2 x 9 1/8 in. on stone base: 6 1/4 x 8 1/2 x 6 3/4 in. on wood base: 34 1/8 x 11 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.

Bird in Space, 1923, marble, (with base) 56 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches

Constantin Brancusi

Maiastra (Bird Before It Flew)1912? Polished brass,

73.1 cm high, including base.

Bird in Space, bronze, 1928

Constantin Brancusi,

Bird in space, polished brass,1932-40, 60”