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Art that is abstract doesn't show recognisable things such as people, objects or landscapes.

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Instead, artists used colors, shapes, and textures to achieve their effect.

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As well as abstract art, Piet Mondián was also passionate about dancing.

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Apparently, he didn't like slow traditional dancing like waltzes or tango, but he enjoyed

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high-energy and fast-dancing styles.

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He also bought one of his paintings, Broadway Boogie Googie, after a popular dance all the time.

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When Mondrian made his paintings, he would always mix his own colors,

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never using the paint directly out of a tube.

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He often used panal colors, red, yellow and blue.

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Mondrian did not use a ruler to measure out his lines.

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Be careful about where to place the lines, like in the painting composition C3.

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The red, yellow and blue are placed to the side, so the center of the painting doesn't have any color.

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Mondrian often used colors and compositions in this way.

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A composition is the arrangement of shapes and images in a picture.

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Although he is the best in abstract paintings made from squares and rectangles,

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The painting of the tree is how he began to develop his abstract life.

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The trunk and bridge of the tree are a network of vertical and horizontal lines.

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In the early 20th century, Paris was the place where the exciting new art and painting of Mondrian felt he had to go there.

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He took a big risk for his art.

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He left behind his home in the Netherlands in 1911 and the woman he was going to marry to pursue his career as an artist in Paris.

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The risk paid off. Mondrian became an important artist whose ideas and works influenced lots of later artists.

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In fact, it wasn't just art that Mondrian inspired.

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The influence of his paintings can be seen in lots of other things, from furniture to fashion.