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The Red Tree by Piet Mondrian, 1909
Kunstmuseum Den Haag · wikidata.org
Public domain
This started off a run of tree paintings he kept at for years — each one taking a bit more out, according to Wikipedia, until the trees eventually turned into straight lines and blocks and stopped being trees at all.
Erisava: All that blue with the red cutting through it — I'd hang this without thinking.
Gray Tree by Piet Mondrian, 1911
Kunstmuseum Den Haag · wikidata.org
Public domain
One of a run of tree paintings he made over a few years, each one supposedly a little further from looking like a tree than the one before. That run is what ends up at the black lines and flat colour blocks he's known for now.
Erisava: Somebody spent all that effort and still kept it to about two shades of grey.
Saint Sebastian by Odilon Redon, 1910
National Gallery of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
For most of his life he drew in black and white — charcoal nightmares, spiders with human faces — and apparently only went over to colour near the end. He came back to this same saint several times.
Erisava: This is meant to be a man being executed. The background is entirely oblivion to that.