Neo-Plasticism is a Dutch movement founded (and named) by Piet Mondrian. It is a rigid form of Abstraction, whose rules allow only for a canvas subsected into rectangles by horizontal and vertical lines, and colored using a very limited palette. Mondrian is also known as "the father of Geometric Abstraction".
Mondrian's early works were mostly still life and landscapes
Amaryllis
1910
Watercolor over pen
View of Winterswijk1898-99
Watercolor
Mondrian came into the art world at the tail-end of Impressionism, in which he too dabbledView from the Dunes with Beach and Piers
Domburg
oil and pencil on cardboar
1909
MoMA
Domburg
oil and pencil on cardboar
1909
MoMA
Passionflower
1908
Watercolor and ink on paper
Still Life with Ginger pot II 1912
You can see the very beginnings of his abstract style...
which finally led to a canvas whose subject is titled but bears no actual resemblance to it.Pier and Ocean
By the around 1915, Mondrian was painting entirely in abstract geometric shapes, and in the 1920's through the 40's, he created several series of abstract works for which he is most famous today.
Composition No. III Blanc-Jaune1935-1942
Oil on Canvas
