Piet Mondrian, New York City 1941-42 and the Golden Rectangle
Successive Golden Rectangles dividing a Golden
Rectangle into squares (New York City 1941-42 by Piet Mondrian).
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golden ratio and Piet Mondrian, New York City 1941-42.
Piet Mondrian (March 7, 1872
- February 1, 1944) was a Dutch painter, pioneer of
Geometric abstraction.
He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg. He evolved a non-representational form which he termed Neo-Plasticism. This consisted of a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the use of the three primary
colors.
New York City (1941-42) Oil on canvas
119 x 114 cm (46 7/8 x 44 7/8 in)
Musee national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
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A golden rectangle
is a rectangle whose side lengths are in the golden ratio,
one-to-phi, that is, approximately 1:1.618. A distinctive
feature of this shape is that when a square section is
removed, the remainder is another golden rectangle, that is,
with the same proportions as the first. Square removal can
be repeated infinitely, which leads to an approximation of
the golden or Fibonacci spiral.
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