Piet Mondrian
He is recognized as one of the pioneers of abstract painting and founder of
"Neoplasticism".
At that time people referred to painting and sculpture as the “plastic arts” to distinguish them from
written art forms like music and literature.
The term "plastic" referred to plasticity, the condition of stuff that can be
formed into other stuff. The term Neoplasticism, coined by Piet Mondrian, was a rejection of the plasticity
of the past. It was a word intended to mean “New Art”.
In particular, Mondrian was particularly passionated by Jazz music because he could find so many
similarities between that type of rythm and his art.
Jazz music is characterized by intuition, organisation but also breaking patterns: as Neoplasticism
has no references to natural world, Jazz is free rythm without references to a storyline.
