Artist field note

Piet Mondrian

The artist who reduced painting to its bones.

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

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Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow

1930

A few black lines and primary colours create a field of tension rather than a decorative grid.

The five in one idea

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