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Picture a canvas filled with a grid of black lines, interspersed with blocks of primary colors. This minimalist composition is the hallmark of Piet Mondrian, a Dutch artist whose quest for harmony and order led him to revolutionize abstract art.…
Title : New York City, 3 (unfinished) Artist Piet Mondrian Year 1941 Type Oil, pencil, chalk and coloured tape on canvas. Dimensions 117 x 110 cm Location Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid In view of the Nazi advance, in 1938, after…
Artist : Paul Klee Title : Alea Jacta (original title), translation: ‘The Die Is Cast’ Date: 1940 Dimensions : 34,6 x 21,6 cm Medium : Brush and paste paint on mottled pink handmade wove paper, mounted on cardboard Location :…
Wassily Kandinsky, Joyous Ascent (Fröhlicher Aufstieg), 1923 A Composition in Pure Energy Some paintings don’t just sit still on the page—they pulse, vibrate, and hum with an inner dynamism that seems to lift them right off the surface. Kandinsky’s Joyous…
Few paintings embody raw, unrestrained energy quite like Cy Twombly’s Untitled (Bacchus) series. Created in 2008, this monumental work—now housed at Tate Modern—is a visceral explosion of looping, blood-red strokes that seem to dance and clash across the vast canvas.…