Showing posts with label Piet Mondrian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Piet Mondrian. Show all posts

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Piet Mondrian and Geometric Abstraction


Mondrian and the quest for "universal harmony"


Less is often more - such is Piet Mondrian's approach to art. His main pictorial elements are horizontals and verticals, his preferred colours yellow, red and blue.

Throughout his life, Mondrian (1872-1944) applied these simple elements in his quest for "universal harmony".