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In doing so, the formal properties of art\u2014such visual elements as line, color, and composition\u2014assumed a primary role in its production. After World War I, many artists, including Piet Mondrian, believed that abstract art could contribute to a more harmonious society by communicating in a universal, visual language. In the wake of the war's destruction, artists associated with De Stijl (meaning, &quot;the style&quot;) in the Netherlands recognized the need for a break with the past, as well as a new aesthetic language to correspond to their utopian vision of the world. In 1917 Mondrian joined the De Stijl movement and began to develop a purely visual language of verticals and horizontals, restricting his compositions to predominantly off-white grounds divided by black rectilinear lines that framed smaller blocks of primary colors.<\/p>\n","short_description":"After World War I, many artists, including Piet Mondrian, believed that abstract art could contribute to a more harmonious society by communicating in a universal visual language. In 1917 Mondrian joined the De Stijl movement, which sought to develop a new aesthetic that corresponded to their utopian vision, and began developing his distictive style: compositions of off-white grounds divided by black lines that framed blocks of primary colors.","dimensions":"57.5 \u00d7 55.6 cm (22 5\/8 \u00d7 21 7\/8 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":55,"height":57,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Signed and dated, l.r.: \"PM 35\"","credit_line":"Gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"A. E. Gallatin Collection (1954), p. 154 (ill.).\n\nMorisani, Mondrian (1956), p. 68 (ill.).\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961) p. 317.\n\nRagghianti, Mondrian (1962), pp. 369, 754 (ill.).\n\nApollonio, Mondrian (1965), pl. XIV. \n\nDunlop, Mondrian (1967), pl. XIV \n\nBusignani, Mondrian (1968), pl. 68 \n\nElgar, Mondrian (1968), pp. 13, 152 (ill.).\n\nButor, \u201cNotes autour de Mondrian,\u201d (1976), p. 7.\n\nWelsh, \u201cThe Place of Composition 12,\u201d (1978), pp. 25 (ill.), 26\u201327.\n\nWeyergraf, Mondrian und Van Doesburg (1979), p. 33.\n\nMeuris, Mondrian (1991), pp. 185, 248 (ill.).\n\nJohn Milner, Mondrian (New York: Abberville Press, 1992), no. 155, p. 196 (ill.).\n\nA. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago, 1980), no. 3A7, p. 58.\n\nJoop M. Joostens, Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9 of the Work of Piet Mondrian: 1911\u20131944, v. 2 (New York: Harry. Abramus, 1998), no. B 255, pp. 377 (ill.) p. 378.\n\nJames Meyer, with W. J. T. Mitchell, Andrew Solomon, Julie Bryan-Wilson, Shawn Michelle Smith, Tom Gunning, and Hillel Schwartz, The Double: Identity and Difference in Art Since 1900, exh. cat. (Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2022), 28, 76, cat. 19 (color ill.).","exhibition_history":"Hartford, Abstract Art, 1935, no. 12\n\nChicago, Abstract Art, 1936, no II.\n\nChicago, Arts Club, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago, November 4\u201325, 1938.\n\nMilwaukee, Art Institute, Industrial Designs by Brooks Stevens, February\u2013May, 1950.\n\nChicago, Art Institute, Mondrian The Process Works, October 3\u2013November 8, 1970.\n\nNew York, Solomon R. 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