The Dutch painter co-founded the De Stijl movement with Theo van Doesburg and developed Neoplasticism, a non-representational style seeking universal beauty through pure abstraction. His highly utopian art aimed to express universal values and aesthetics. To achieve this, Mondrian limited his visual language to primary colors (red, blue, yellow), primary values (black, white, gray), and primary directions (horizontal, vertical). His work profoundly influenced modern design, architecture, and minimalism, shaping the visual language of the 20th century.