1134 LUDWIGWITTGENSTEIN
Composition in Yellow, Red, Blue and Black,1921, by Piet Mondrian (1872–1944). The painter/draftsman Mondrian
constructed nonobjective paintings with mathematical precision. The clarity of form and structure, together with the lack
of any ornamentation, provides a visual metaphor for the precision and austerity of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus.
(Giraudon/Art Resource, NY)