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Composition 10 in black and white
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Composition 10 in black and whiteOn the photos and in the video you see our reproductions on canvas of two artworks; "Composition 10 in black and white" in the size 100 x 80 cm and "Composition in line, second state" in the size 65 x 65 cm. |
Piet Mondriaan was born in 1872 in Amersfoort, and he was introduced to art from a very young age with his father being a drawing teacher and his uncle who was a painter. In 1910 he moved to Paris and there he was inspired by cubism, after which his paintings would rapidly transform into complete abstractions of nature. He was also a spiritual person and a member of the Theosophical movement. About his vision on art and spirituality he said; |
Composition 10 in black and white is the first painting in which Mondriaan uses exclusively black and white. This artwork is an abstract, elliptical composition of short, horizontal and vertical black lines. |
He was mainly concerned with the bringing together of opposites, the horizontal and vertical, to thereby express a general idea of harmony and rhythm. The rolling waves can be seen in the long, straight horizontals in the middle of the painting, while the abstraction of a breakwater is recognizable in the vertical lines at the bottom of the painting. Many people all over the world still refer to this artwork as "Peer and Ocean". Looking for a Mondriaan? View our Mondriaan reproductions collection on canvas or on tile tableaus (all originals are part of the Kröller-Müller museum collection). All Dutch Art Reproductions are Museum Certified and come with a certificate. |