Before Piet Mondrian came into contact with Cubism in Paris, he painted Impressionist landscapes and city views. Then he rigorously changed his style. In 1917 he established the group De Stijl with Bart van der Leck and Theo van Doesburg. They wanted to create a new kind of art for a new and better world. Their basis was the straight line, the primary colours, the abstraction of motifs and the collaboration between artists and architects. In his works, Mondrian sought a balance between lines and colours and attempted to achieve an abstraction that would evoke a universal, timeless image. ‘Composition in Colour A’ still contains rhythmically arranged blocks of colour, but in subsequent years Mondrian would eliminate all movement and depth from his paintings and use only red, yellow and blue.
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