Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Composition in Colours / Composition No. I with Red and Blue
Image View:
Detail, lower center
Creator:
Piet Mondrian (Dutch painter, 1872-1944)
Location:
repository: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) Inv. no. 677 (1977.51)
Location Note:
Paseo del Prado, 8
GPS:
40.416111-3.695
Date:
1931 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Dutch
Style Period:
De Stijl; Neo-Plastic; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
50 cm (height) x 50 cm (width)
Subjects:
abstraction; nonrepresentational art; non-objective
Description:
Although his links to the Dutch Neo-Plasticist group De Stijl were severed in 1925 owing to disagreements with Van Doesburg, Mondrian devoted his whole life and oeuvre to investigating the balance between orthogonal forms and primary colors. Piet Mondrian was the foremost representative of the geometrical trend in abstract art at the Cubism and Abstract Art exhibition staged in 1936 by Alfred Barr. This work illustrates his pared down artistic vocabulary, which was by then fully defined following his return from Paris, when he published his manifesto on Neo-Plasticism. (Source: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum [website]; https://www.museothy ssen.org/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-MONDRIAN-TBM-CIC 1-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Composition in Colours / Composition No. I with Red and Blue