Piet Mondrian
1872–1944
Mondrian cofounded De Stijl with Theo van Doesburg in 1917. His mature vocabulary used verticals, horizontals, primary colors, white, gray and black. After moving to New York in 1940, he replaced black lines with colored ones and tested arrangements using movable paper strips.
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Piet Mondrian, Self-Portrait, c. 1900. The Phillips Collection, acquired 1958, 1375. Public domain reproduction via Wikimedia Commons. Portrait source · Licence
