Den Haagse Gemeente Museum: Piet Mondriaan 1872 Amersfoort - New York 1944
"Mondrian embraced on his quest for a truly abstract form of painting in 1908. This would not merely combine lines and colors in a decorative manner, it should also make tangible the 'spirit of the coming age.' Mondrian slowly but surely, through experimentation, came to the conclusion that pure, intense, colors (primary colors) and a strong simple manifestation of the line (the horizontal and vertical) could help realize such an abstract form of art. the visual manifestation was not an aim in itself; it was based on philosophical and moral considerations. Thus would beauty become truly visible in life. When, around 1917, a younger generation enthusiastically began to search for an art suited to modern life. Mondrian appeared to have an answer of all their questions. He easily filled the first two volumes of De Stijl with fairly inaccessible articles that gave him as a reputation as the founder of the new abstract art. He fought with Van Doesburg, but his faith in their common cause - the new - ultimately remained unshaken."
The Red Cloud, 1907
Landscape at Evening, 1908
Evening, The Red Tree 1908-1910
Flowering Apple Tree, 1912
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