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| Tableau 1,1921. |
Some artists are experimental innovators, who work by trial and error revising their style. They are uncertain about their goals and their mature style appears gradually and usually later in their life. Other artists are conceptual innovators who have precise goals and frequently have radical innovations that break with existing conventions. Their great works usually come early in their careers before thoughts and habits are firmly entrenched. Cézanne was an experimental innovator, while Picasso was a conceptual innovator producing great works early in his career.
Piet Mondrian was a very methodical experimental innovator who made
serial abstract changes over decades. Representational art was progressively simplified down to geometric forms and primary colors.
The selected works below show how the flat landscape of the Netherlands was abstracted over time to have a profound influence on his well known grid pattern.
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| At Work on the Land, 1898. |
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| Summer Night, 1906. |
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| View from the dunes with beach and piers, 1909. |
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| Dune-II 1909. |
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| Dune Landscape, 1909. |
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| Dune V, 1909. |
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| Dune in Zealand, 1910. |
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| Dune IV, 1910. |
Trees were also abstracted into a grid but this was a few years later.
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| Red Tree,1908. |
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| Grey Tree, 1911. |
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| Flowering Apple Tree, 1912. |
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