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Red blue yellow white and black. Abstract art uses visual language of shape form color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.

New York City 3 Unfinished United States 1941 By Piet Mondrian Mondriaan Piet Mondriaan Kunst

Painting is an ancient medium.

. Walking up to Piet Mondrians painting Composition with Red Blue and Yellow can be a baffling experience see image at leftThe canvas is small and uses only the simplest of colors. A well-known work of abstraction Mondrian contributes to the abstract visual language in a large way despite using a relatively small canvas. Thick black brushwork defines the borders of.

Piet Mondrian original name Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan born March 7 1872 Amersfoort Netherlandsdied February 1 1944 New York New York US painter who was an important leader in the development of modern abstract art and a major exponent of the Dutch abstract art movement known as De Stijl The Style. But all that abruptly changed when a survey of Europes leading modernists was mounted at New York Citys 69th Regiment Armory on. Tree Studies 1908 1913 With his series of studies of trees Mondrian demonstrated his process of distilling the essence of beauty from naturally harmonious forms.

In his mature paintings Mondrian used. Composition with Red Blue and Yellow is a 1930 painting by Piet Mondrian. Western art had been from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century underpinned by the logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality.

Trees are chaotic in structure yet at the same time are balanced compositions that also respond to and reflect their environment along with the action of time. The composition is similarly reduced to the simplest of rectilinear forms squares and rectangles defined by vertical and horizontal lines. Piet Mondrian Composition.

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