Abstract pioneer: Harmonies in red, yellow, and blue A key figure in the international avant-garde, Piet Mondrian(1872 1944) was at once an extraordinary painter and leading art theoretician whose influence resonate to this day. Coining the term Neo-plasticism, he pursued a style of painting composed only ofprimary colorsagainst agrid of black vertical and horizontal linesand awhite base background.Mondrian s vision was that this essential painting would help to achieve a society in which art as such has no place, but rather exists for thetotal realization of beauty . With stints inAmsterdam,...