Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century abstract artist and art theorist obsessed with simplicity and essence of form. Even ...

Grey Tree by Piet Mondrian, 1911. [Image: Kunstmuseum Den Haag] Fundamental research in the biology of branching helps cure cardiovascular diseases and cancer, design materials that can heal ...

His 1911 work “De Grijze Boom” (“The Gray Tree”) shows a series of black lines against a gray background, but the painting is nonetheless instantly recognizable as a tree, with its branch ...