Composition of Red, Blue, Yellow, and White: Nom II Beginning in
the late 1910s, Piet Mondrian helped to author the De Stijl
movement, which called for a radical reduction of composition in
order to express the essential and ideal in nature and the
world, in which form would be reduced to line, compositional
relationships to right angles, and colors to red, blue, and
yellow. Composition of Red, Blue, Yellow, and White: Nom II
expresses the tenents of De Stijl while retaining a vivid
humanity, the vision of a painter who for almost two decades had
been living and working with the belief that, if purified of
self, art could lead to social harmony. Piet Mondrian (b. 1872,
Amersfoort, The Netherlands; d. 1944, New York) Composition of
Red, Blue, Yellow, and White: Nom II, 1939 Oil on canvas 17 5/8
x 15 in. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The Rita
and Taft Schreiber Collection, given in loving memory of her
husband, Taft Schreiber, by Rita Schreiber