Piet Mondrian’s deceptively simple “Composition with Red Blue Yellow,” creates a colossal impact with minimal black lines and balanced blocks of color. Painted in his “Neoplasticism” style, based on the pure colors and straight lines underlying the visible world, Mondrian reduced his palette to flat, primary colors, straight lines and angles that echoed the canvas’ surface. One of the 20th century’s most influential artists, Mondrian (1872 – 1944) originally painted calm landscapes before adopting a Cubist style, moving through seminaturalism and abstraction to arrive at a style of vertical and horizontal brushstrokes.

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