Artist field note

Piet Mondrian

The artist who reduced painting to its bones.

Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow by Piet Mondrian
Art Institute of Chicago · Public domainSource ↗

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Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow

1930

Balance is achieved without symmetry. Every rectangle seems to affect every other one.

The five in one idea

Mondrian asked how little painting could contain - and discovered how much.