Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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In the first of a four-part lecture series, art historian and curator John Walsh discusses the career of the pioneer abstractionist Piet Mondrian (1892–1944). Mondrian began as a painter of Dutch scenes appealing to conventional tastes, realistic in style and sometimes moody, eventually intending to serve a spiritual purpose.

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