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Mon·dri·an  audio  (môndr-än, mn-) KEY , Piet Originally Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan. 1872-1944.

Dutch painter whose works, characterized by intersecting perpendicular lines and planes of primary colors, and writings, notably Neoplasticism (1920), profoundly influenced the development of abstract art.



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