Composition No. 5

Date: 1914
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 54.8 x 85.3

The painting is an abstract composition made up of a number of overlapping blocks of irregular shapes and sizes that resemble deconstructed masonry work or mosaics. The colors range in a warm palette from soft pastels to more vibrant shades of yellow and orange, with a few accents of coral and dark green. These blocks are scattered throughout the canvas, with the artist's inscription and year adorning the bottom of the painting.

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Mondrian painted picture Composition No. 5 in 1914. Prevailing color of this fine art print is green and its shape is landscape. Original size is 54.8 x 85.3. This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) Painter. Despite being from a family of drawing teachers, he was initially drawn to a priestly life. At last, his uncle brought him to painting as he had enrolled Mondrian at the Academy in Amsterdam. Mondrian experimented in his painting. His early works bear a clear inspiration from impressionism. At the 1911 exhibition in Amsterdam, he met with the newly beginning style of Cubism, of which he became very fond. Through continuous painting of the same object ( Tableau I), he tried to capture its true nature. For three years, he lived in Paris, but with the beginning of World War I, he returned to Holland. He did not remain long, and again returned to Paris, where he created very abstract images - Duinlandschap. His greatest fame, paradoxically, came in the USA, where he had to move under the threat of Nazism in 1938. It is said that he worked so hard that he had blisters on his hands from paint brushes. Through his geometricism he influenced many of his successors. Piet Mondrian died 1. 2. 1944 pneumonia.