Piet Mondrian

Biography

Piet Mondrian (1872–1944), co‑founder of De Stijl, pursued a universal visual language of verticals/horizontals, rectangles, and primary colors plus neutrals. After fleeing Europe during World War II, he settled in New York in 1940, where jazz and the city’s grid animated his late style, culminating in Broadway Boogie Woogie and the unfinished Victory Boogie Woogie [1][6].

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Composition No. IV, with Red, Blue, and Yellow

Piet Mondrian (1929)

Composition with Yellow and Blue

Piet Mondrian (1932)

Picture No. III (often labelled Picture No. III / Composition no. 3)

Piet Mondrian (1938)

Lozenge Composition with Two Lines by Piet Mondrian

Lozenge Composition with Two Lines

Piet Mondrian

Broadway Boogie Woogie by Piet Mondrian

Broadway Boogie Woogie

Piet Mondrian (1942–1943)

Mondrian converts New York’s pulse into a <strong>vibrating grid</strong> of color. In place of black bars, intersecting <strong>yellow bands</strong> studded with red, blue, white, and light gray units generate a <strong>syncopated rhythm</strong> across wide white blocks that read as pauses and city blocks <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup>.

Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow by Piet Mondrian

Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow

Piet Mondrian (1930)

Mondrian’s Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow crystallizes <strong>Neo‑Plasticism</strong> into a taut field of verticals/horizontals and primary planes, rejecting depth for <strong>pure relational balance</strong>. A dominant red at upper right is held in check by smaller blue and yellow blocks and by black bars that function as <strong>active planes</strong> rather than outlines. The result is a concise proposal for <strong>universal order</strong> achieved through asymmetry and reduction <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup>.

Composition: No. II, with Yellow, Red and Blue by Piet Mondrian

Composition: No. II, with Yellow, Red and Blue

Piet Mondrian (1930)

Composition No. III, with Red, Blue, Yellow, and Black

Piet Mondrian (1929)

Composition with Large Red Plane, Bluish Gray, Yellow, Black and Blue by Piet Mondrian

Composition with Large Red Plane, Bluish Gray, Yellow, Black and Blue

Piet Mondrian (1922)

Victory Boogie Woogie

Piet Mondrian

Composition with Red, Blue and Grey by Piet Mondrian

Composition with Red, Blue and Grey

Piet Mondrian (1927)