This work is very representative of Mondrian's Neoplastic language: the range of colours is reduced to the primary colours -blue and red-, delimited and framed by the non-colours -black and white-. The radical simplification of the means used can be seen in this abstract surface on which the painter has relinquished all reference to nature and the characteristic elements of traditional painting: shading, volume and perspective. This type of language arose during the First World War; the great impact of its barbarities and destruction made various artists, centred on the magazine De Stijl, create a new art based on order and harmony. Mondrian, the maximum figure of the group, thus conceived a pure painting, without subjectivity or emotion, which would herald a new balanced and rational society. Afterwards, the painter will maintain this language, submitting it to a process of simplification of its style, as can be seen in this work, considered to belong to his classic period.
