Mondrian was born in the Netherlands and was introduced to art from a very early age. His father was a qualified drawing teacher; Piet often painted and drew along the river. He began his career as an elementary school teacher, but while teaching he also painted. Most of his work from this period was naturalistic or impressionistic, consisting largely of landscapes, pastoral images, windmills, fields, and rivers.
Various artistic movements had a lot of influence over Mondrain, including pointillism and fauvism. He eventually began using a palette consisting almost entirely of red, yellow and blue.
The earliest paintings that show a feeling of the abstraction to come are a series representing scenes of trees and houses with reflections in still water. However, these paintings are still rooted in nature, compared to his further abstractions.
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