A classical interpretation by multi-award winning UK female Artist Denisa Mansfield, of the De Stijl art movement and Neo-Plasticism composed of white, red, yellow and blue colours hand-painted using oil on canvas to produce geometric linear shapes that look in harmony. 
 
This painting forms part of Mansfield’s Geo-Plasticism collection; a contemporary response to the principles established by Piet Mondrian and the De Stijl movement. While early Neo-Plasticism pursued universal harmony through reduction, balance, and spiritual order, Mansfield reinterprets the language of primary colour and geometric structure to address the material realities of the present.
 
In this piece, bold reds, yellows, blues and white, are intentionally heightened with bold expressive brush work to reference the synthetic intensity of plastic, a material that has come to dominate modern life. These colours are no longer purely idealistic; they signal mass production, permanence, and environmental consequence. The structured compositions reflect control and order, while the dense, textured paint surfaces disrupt Neo-Plasticism’s historical flatness, introducing a sense of accumulation and resistance.
This collection functions as both homage and critique. It acknowledges the formal clarity of Neo-Plasticism while repositioning it within a contemporary context, one shaped by environmental urgency, overconsumption, and ongoing efforts toward sustainability and recycling. Precision and design remain central, but they are used to question progress rather than idealise it. Mansfield’s Geo-Plasticism works reflect a time in which abstraction must do more than resolve form, it must also respond to the conditions of the world that produces it.
 
Highly collectible international artist and artwork, recently exhibited in Chelmsford Museum and Mall Galleries, London. Also featured in House and Garden Magazine.
 
Measurements:
Weight: 103 cm (framed)
Width: 83 cm (framed)