If anyone could be described as being larger-than-life American writer, Ernest Hemingway could. He was born in 1899, as Ernest Miller Hemingway, in Oak Park, Illinois. Raised in an upper middle class upbringing, his father was a physician and his mother had trained as a singer. The family spend summers in Michigan, were Ernest became a great lover of the outdoors. This love of the nature remained with him all his life. When Ernest

Piet Mondrian was born Pieter Cornelis Mondrian, Jr., on March 7, 1872, in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. He studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, from 1892 to 1897. Until 1908, when he began to take annual trips to Domburg in Zeeland, Mondrian’s work was naturalistic—incorporating later influences of academic landscape and still-life painting, Dutch Impressionism, and Symbolism. In 1909, a major exhibition of his work, with that of Jan Sluyters and Cornelis Spoor, was held at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and that same year he joined the Theosophic Society. In 1909 and 1910, he experimented with Pointillism and by 1911 had begun to work in a Cubist mode. After seeing original Cubist works by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso at the first Moderne Kunstkring exhibition in 1911 in Amsterdam, Mondrian decided to move to Paris. There, from 1912 to 1914, he began to develop an independent abstract style. Mondrian was visiting the Netherlands when World War I broke out and prevented his return to Paris. During the war years in Holland, he reduced his colors and geometric shapes and invented his non-objective Neo-Plastic style. In 1917, Mondrian became one of the founders of De Stijl. This group, which included Theo van Doesburg, Bart van der Leck, and Georges Vantongerloo, extended its principles of abstraction and simplification beyond painting and sculpture to architecture and graphic and industrial design. Mondrian’s essays on abstract art were published in the periodical De Stijl. In July 1919, he returned to Paris; there he exhibited with De Stijl in 1923, but withdrew from the group after van Doesburg reintroduced diagonal elements into his work around 1925. In 1930, Mondrian showed with Cercle et Carré and in 1931 joined Abstraction-Création. World War II forced Mondrian to move to London in 1938 and then to settle in New York in October 1940. In New York, he joined American Abstract Artists and continued to publish texts on Neo-Plasticism. His late style evolved significantly in response to the city. In 1942, his first solo show took place at the Valentine Dudensing Gallery, New York. Mondrian died February 1, 1944, in New York. Without a doubt Franklin Delano Roosevelt rose to the presidency during one of the most difficult and critical times in American History. The economy was in total collapse, unemployment hit 25%, and inflation was high. This was the Great Depression and it hit its peak in 1932. Roosevelt entered office on January 20, 1933. People expected answers and action. And they expected it quick. To respond, FDR calle

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