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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Amsterdam Honors Mondrian with Major Exhibition on 150 Jubilee

Employees pose for a photograph with "Composition: No. II with Yellow, Red and Blue" by Piet Mondrian prior to the New York spring season of evening sales at Christie's gallery in London, Britain, April 22, 2021. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

Squares, lines, colors: this abstract linear approach to art helped the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) gain fame around the world. Mondrian, who, many art historians would argue, was the inventor of the abstract, would have turned 150 this year, according to the German News Agency.

To mark this jubilee, the museum with the world’s largest collection of Mondrian works is now honoring the artist with a major exhibition.

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