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ABSTRACTION

• Dutch painter• Balance, form and

color

“THE FIRST THING TO CHANGE IN MY PAINTING WAS THE COLOR.”

Mill in Sunlight: The Winkel Mill 1908

Red Tree 1910

LOSS OF DETAIL: THE ROAD TO ABSTRACTION

The Red Mill 1911

CUBISM

Above: Trees in Blossom 1913

Composition No. 10/(Pier and Ocean) 1915

“I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract

everything until I arrive at the Fundamental quality of objects.”

THE LOSS OF CURVED LINES

Composition 1917

NEO-PLASTICISM:“ONLY PRIMARY COLORS AND NON-COLORS, ONLY SQUARES AND RECTANGLES, ONLY STRAIGHT AND HORIZONTAL OR STRAIGHT AND VERTICAL LINE.”

Composition with Yellow, Red, Black, Blue, and Gray 1920

Tableau No. 1 1925

DOUBLE LINE PAINTINGS

Painting No. 9 1942

NEW YORK STATE OF MIND

New York City I 1942 Part of the New York subway system

BOOGIE-WOOGIE

Victory Boogie-Woogie 1944 (Unfinished)

Birds Eye View of New York City