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Piet Mondrian, painter, is considered one of the great artists of the 20th century. He is an important leader in the development of modern abstract art and a major representative of the Dutch De Stijl abstract art movement. Mondrian radically simplified the elements of painting to reflect the spiritual order he saw as constituting the visible world and to create a clear, universal aesthetic language in his canvases. He used straight lines, right angles, primary colors, and black, white, and gray in simple, primitive combinations. The resulting works have a pure purity of form and embody the artist's spiritual belief in a harmonious world.