Composition no. I
1929 Kunstmuseum Basel
About this artwork
This is a quintessential work by Piet Mondrian, featuring a white canvas intersected by a grid of black lines, defining rectangular planes, one of which is filled with primary red.
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Piet Mondrian, a pioneer of abstract art, sought to express universal harmony through his Neoplasticism, a branch of the De Stijl movement. His iconic grid compositions, like this one, aim to represent pure reality by reducing art to its most fundamental elements: primary colors and non-colors, combined with straight lines and right angles. This pursuit of purity and balance profoundly influenced modern architecture, design, and even fashion.
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Composition no. I
Piet Mondrian, 1929
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