Den Haagse Gemeente Museum: Piet Mondriaan 1872 Amersfoort - New York 1944
"From 1908, Mondrian would regularly spend the summer in Domburg, where a real artists' colony had developed. In search of new ways to express the spiritual and the modern, many artists would use bursts of color in their paintings. To Mondrian, light, and therefore color, gave access to the profound, the spiritual. He chose motifs with a strong horizontal or vertical effect, towers for the vertical and seascapes for the horizontal. This gave him the opportunity to get close to the opposing universal forces that control the world. He viewed the male and the female in the same way. His palette became radiant, bright and light, and he started working with clearly visible brushstrokes, or with dots or squares. The images dissolved into light."
Above: Mill at Domburg, 1908
Below: Sea After Sunset, 1909
Dunes Near Domburg, 1910
Dune Landscape, 1911
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