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Piet Mondrian's Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red from 1937 exemplifies his mature De Stijl style. Black lines create an asymmetrical grid filled with primary colors and white. The composition achieves dynamic balance without symmetry.

Mondrian believed art should express universal harmony through reduction to essentials: horizontal and vertical lines, primary colors, and non-colors (black, white, gray). These paintings influenced architecture, design, and fashion. The apparent simplicity masks careful calibration of each element. It hangs at Tate Modern.

Mondrian believed red, yellow, and blue were fundamental. Combined with black, white, and gray, they expressed universal harmony without the distraction of mixed or secondary colors.

De Stijl (Dutch for 'The Style') was a movement founded in 1917. It advocated pure abstraction through geometric forms, primary colors, and asymmetrical balance. Mondrian was its leading painter.

Piet Mondrian's black lines create an asymmetrical grid filled with primary colors and white. These paintings influenced architecture, design, and fashion.

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