Tag: geometric abstraction

For decades, Nerea Azanza couldn’t create. Not because she stopped loving art, but because a medical mistake silenced the part of her that made it possible. When her creativity finally returned, she didn’t paint loudly. She painted tiny human faces fragile, almost dissolving into vast spaces of line and structure. Because to her, we are dust in a universe we barely respect. And humility, after everything, felt necessary.

Simplicity looks easy until you try to master it. Piet Mondrian did what most artists spend lifetimes chasing, he made simplicity profound. Born in the Netherlands in 1872, Mondrian began like many others, painting trees, fields, and quiet horizons. But somewhere along the way, he stopped chasing what he saw and started painting what he felt. His journey from representational landscapes to pure abstraction wasn’t just about changing styles, it was about redefining what art could even be. Mondrian believed that beneath all the chaos of life was a hidden order.…