The Dutch painter Piet Mondrian left an unmistakable mark on the world of art -- which is why a city in his homeland is paying him tribute. Mark Phillips takes us on a walking tour: Walk along any ...

Works of art in museums are easy targets because they are undefended, and, in the wake of these protests, they will have to be made ever more defended, compelling prudent museums to put glass on ...

On Dec. 24, with memories of the calamity of Sept. 11 still fresh, The Chronicle published my reflections on a painting by Piet Mondrian that the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art owns and displays.

He kept his surroundings modest and simple, and eliminated disturbances in what he saw, in the same way that he simplified his personal life, to concentrate on his painting and writing. Mondrian was ...

Mondrian made something as deceptively simple as a black-edged grid of primary colors a universally recognizable signature—not only in art but across a spectrum of design offered in homage.

When he painted “Broadway Boogie Woogie” in 1942-1943, Mondrian (1872-1944) had been living in New York City for just over two years. The Dutch artist was in his early 70s. Like many other ...

Even abstract paintings such as Piet Mondrian's 1912 cubist Gray Tree, which doesn’t visually show treelike colours, can be identified as trees if a realistic value for α is used, researchers say.