Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian painted dark Dutch landscapes and windmills in the manner of the Hague School, passed through vivid Symbolist trees and a Cubist phase in Paris, then by 1921 arrived at the black grids and primary colours that made him famous. Moving to New York in 1940, he loosened them again into the coloured, syncopated lines of Broadway Boogie Woogie, inspired by jazz and the city's street plan.