He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg. Despite being well-known, often-parodied and even trivialized, Mondrian's paintings exhibit a complexity that belies their apparent simplicity. He is best known for his non-representational paintings that he called "compositions", consisting of rectangular forms of red, yellow, blue, white or black, separated by black rectilinear lines. They are the result of a stylistic evolution that occurred over the course of nearly 30 years and continued beyond that point to the end of his life.
Many modernist graphic designers took inspiration from Mondrians paintings. The simple geometric and systematic style of his paintings inspired designers involved in constructivism, fascination with structure, grid systems, simple geometric forms ie; circle and square.
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