Piet Mondrian: “Today, not only is pure beauty necessary to us, for us the only medium manifesting purely the universal force that is in all things”

Piet Mondrian

In the Mind of Great Artists

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“Today, not only is pure beauty necessary to us, for us the only medium manifesting purely the universal force that is in all things.”
Piet Mondrian

Mondrian was in search of pure beauty. He used the simplest elements and primary colors to find that harmony, representing the order in which the universe works, the mathematical laws that keep it in equilibrium even when it is in constant movement.

In his paintings, he combined abstraction and geometry, disregarding artistic conventions, the curve line, and three-dimensional pictorial space. Even while attempting to depict the harmony of the entire universe, he simply used two dimensions.

His work conveys his ambition for a clear and disciplined art, as well as that mystical inclination that is common among abstract painters.

What does this mean? When trying to represent something in an abstract way, there is always a search for the essential, for the spirit of things, for what is beyond the surface, for what is visible, and that is why it has an almost mystical sense.

In conclusion, we can say that Piet Mondrian’s search extended beyond the physical, aiming for the unchangeable, immutable realities hidden underneath the forms that change and eventually expire.

Image: Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Gray and Blue Plane (1921)

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