Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow

Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow is an oil on canvas painting^[1] by Piet Mondrian, from 1930.

Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow
Artist	Piet Mondrian
Year	1930
Type	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	45 cm × 45 cm (17.7165 in × 17.7165 in)
Location	Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich

Description and analysis

It consists of thick, black brushwork, defining the borders of colored rectangles. As the title suggests, the only colors used in it besides black and white are red, blue, and yellow. The piece is very similar to Mondrian's 1930 Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow.^[2] According to Stephanie Chadwick, an associate professor of art history at Lamar University, "Mondrian's Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow demonstrates his commitment to relational opposites, asymmetry, and pure planes of color. Mondrian composed this painting as a harmony of contrasts that signifies both balance and the tension of dynamic forces."^[3]