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| Piet Mondrian, "Composition C (No. III) With Red, Yellow and Blue" (1935). Tate Modern Collection, Structure and Clarity Exhibtion. Click here for image URL |
Mondrian's worked developed into the beauty of the bare minimun. In the series of his more mature compositions, canvases consists of white background, vertical and horizontal black crossing lines, and the use of red, yellow and/or blue. In other terms, rectangles and squares and primary colours. Mondrian believed colours did not need to mix nor lines need to bend in order to achieve pure beauty. He isolated all other artistic techniques in order to provide a pure mathematical study of the beauty of art.
The essence of Mondrian’s ideas is that painting, composed of the most fundamental aspects of line and colour, must set an example to the other arts for achieving a society in which art as such has no place but belongs instead to the total realization of ‘beauty’.*
* 2009 Oxford University Press. MoMA, the collection - about the artist Piet Mondrian.
