Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Diane Daniel, Special to The Washington Post THE HAGUE — You might notice it from the highway, in the form of a high-rise sporting a colorful grid on its ...

FORT WORTH — Usually, the long career of the Dutch Modernist painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) is split into two parts, with a pivotal interlude in between. Most significant are the great, classic ...

Red squares. Black lines. Yellow rectangles. White backgrounds. Primary colors, basic geometry. If you can use a ruler, you too can have your creations grace the walls of a museum. Yet, it’s not quite ...

A canvas by Piet Mondrian fetched $50.6 million at a Christie’s sale in New York on Thursday, an auction record for the late modern artist who is famous for his paintings of rectilinear patterns ...

While Mondrian is overshadowed by more-famous Dutch artists Vincent van Gogh and Rembrandt van Rijn, he was considered a leader of modern art by the time he moved to New York City in 1940. (He died ...

Piet Mondrian, “Windmill in Twilight” (c. 1907-1908), oil on canvas, 67.5 x 117.5 cm; © Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague, the Netherlands (all images courtesy ...

WHETHER they know it or not, the architect, the layout artist, the sign painter, and even the counter girl who wraps a candy box asymmetrically with a gay ribbon all owe a debt to a lone Dutchman ...