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Friday
May162014

Piet Mondrian: Neo-Plasticism

DateFriday, May 16, 2014 at 11:14AM

Piet Mondrian - Lozenge Composition with Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow, and Black, 1924-25, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (click photo for larger image)Neo-Plasticism is a Dutch movement founded (and named) by Piet Mondrian. It is a rigid form of Abstraction, whose rules allow only for a canvas subsected into rectangles by horizontal and vertical lines, and colored using a very limited palette. Neo-Plasticism was somewhat influential on Russian Constructivism. Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was an artist who carried abstraction to its absolute limits. He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement (Dutch, for style, and also known as Neo-Plasticism) whose proponents advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and color. 

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