Piet Mondrian

1) Piet Mondrian famously accused the Cubists of not recognizing the logical consequences of their discoveries. If Cubist collage, no matter how much it touched upon the abstract, was always bound up in a project of representation, Mondrian sought another aesthetic domain, a new elementarization and integration, which he dubbed Neo-Plasticism. Discuss Mondrian’s path from representation to abstraction citing key works to track his progressive developments.