{{Short description|1933 painting by Piet Mondrian}} {{Infobox artwork/wikidata|image_upright=1.1}}
'''''Composition with Yellow Lines''''' is an oil on canvas abstract painting on canvas by Dutch artist Piet Mondrian, from 1933. Composition with Yellow Lines hangs in the Kunstmuseum in The Hague.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Piet Mondriaan |url=https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/images/219807 |access-date=2022-11-19 |website=rkd.nl |language=nl}}</ref>
==History and description== While following the grid like structures of his other abstract paintings, it is unusual in omitting the use of any black lines.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-11-15 |title=10918x1y102064 |url=https://www.kunstmuseum.nl/nl/node/7965 |access-date=2022-11-19 |website=Kunstmuseum Den Haag |language=nl}}</ref> Indeed, Mondrian's earlier writings on art had stated that any lines in his paintings had to be black; colour was reserved for the filled in rectangles.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Deicher |first=Susanne |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V3XupwRJUoYC&dq=Lozenge+composition+with+yellow+lines&pg=PA75 |title=Piet Mondrian, 1872-1944: Structures in Space |date=1999 |publisher=Taschen |isbn=978-3-8228-5973-5 |pages=75 |language=en}}</ref> The painting is equally unusual in that none of the lines meet. He did not paint any further paintings with this design element until his move to New York in 1940.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sooke |first=Alastair |title=Mondrian: The joy of being square |url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20170710-mondrian-the-joy-of-being-square |access-date=2022-11-19 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en}}</ref>
The painting sometimes receives the title ''Lozenge Composition with Yellow Lines'' because of the diamond, or lozenge, shape that the painting has. The painting was presented to the Kunstmuseum Den Haag in 1933 after a group of artists organised a public collection of funds to purchase it.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wijnia |first=Lieke |date=February 2018 |title=Bringing Mondrian's 'Lozenge composition with yellow lines' to the Netherlands |url=https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/bringing-mondrians-lozenge-composition-with-yellow-lines-to-the-n |journal=Burlington Magazine |language=English |volume=160 |issue=1379 |pages=118–125 |issn=0007-6287}}</ref>
==Cultural references== A 2007 musical piece for clarinet and piano by the composer Stuart Greenbaum is based on the painting and has the same name.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Composition with yellow lines : for clarinet and piano by Stuart Greenbaum : Work : Australian Music Centre |url=https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/work/greenbaum-stuart-composition-with-yellow-lines |access-date=2022-11-19 |website=www.australianmusiccentre.com.au}}</ref>
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