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Islamic World
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Composition with Grid #1
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Piet Mondrian
Composition with Grid #1
1918
31 9/16 x 19 5/8 in. (80.2 x 49.8 cm)
Oil on canvas
63.16
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In 1917 Piet Mondrian helped to found the Dutch art group de Stijl (the Style), among the most idealistic and severe of the early abstract movements. Driven by more than aesthetics, de Stijl also had an almost religious mission: to unite the material and spiritual worlds through an art of pure geometry. For Mondrian, a grid-pattern composition of horizontal and vertical lines could represent the universal harmony of the world. An X-ray of this painting reveals that Mondrian had first sketched a uniform grid of rectangles based on the classical golden rectangle; each of the overlaying rectangles is made up of components from this grid.
Gift of Antoni Tāpies
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Related Exhibitions & Collections:
Modern and Contemporary Art
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