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Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue by Piet Mondrian, 1927
Cleveland Museum of Art · wikidata.org
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Mondrian, from what I've read, believed grids like this could help build a calmer, more honest world after the first World War — a strict visual language everyone could read the same way.
Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray by Piet Mondrian, 1921
Art Institute of Chicago · wikidata.org
Public domain
He turned a square canvas onto its corner to hang like a diamond — not a one-off trick, he kept coming back to the format for years.