Composition with Blue, Red, Yellow, and Black, 1922
Piet Mondrianexpand_more
Oil on canvasexpand_more
Gift of Bruce B. Daytonexpand_more 65.5
On View in Gallery 377expand_more
Like many artists living in Paris in 1912, Piet Mondrian experimented with Cubism—depicting a subject from multiple viewpoints at once, often creating a fractured and disjointed image. After returning to Holland in 1914, he developed his own brand of abstraction, reducing natural forms to simplified geometric patterns. Unlike the Cubists, Mondrian eventually abandoned recognizable subjects even as a starting point, adopting instead a rational and intellectual style that he called Neo-Plasticism.
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- Title
- Composition with Blue, Red, Yellow, and Black
- Artist Life
- 1872 - 1944
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 65.5
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