Composition with Red Blue and Yellow De Stijl. An encounter with fellow Dutch artist Bart van der Leck provided ground for Mondrian to exchange ideas. From van der Leck he received the concept of painting flat areas of pure color; a solution to Mondrian’s problem of coloring - he was then using color in what he considered an Impressionist way, which was too restless and emotional. In return, van der Leck adopted Mondrian’s concept of crossed vertical and horizontal lines as a basis for composition. These two technical elements are consistent throughout all of Mondrian’s work. Shortly after the formation of Mondrian and van der Leck’s
Michiel van der Heijden second Dutch XCO World Champion after Bart Brentjens. He was on the start list for the 2018 Cross-country European Championship and he finished Michiel van der Heijden Michiel van der Heijden (born 3 January 1992 in Den Bosch) is a Dutch mountain biker and Cyclo Cross Rider. From 2007 until 2010 he raced for the Merida-Combee mountain bike team, now he is racing for the Rabobank cycling team. Van der Heijden won a silver medal for mountain biking in the 2009 European Championships in Zoetermeer, and a bronze medal at the Europeans in 2010 in Haifa. In 2011 he became