Piet Mondrian

I said, that looks like almost he used an algorithm to create that, make more Mondrians. I'm not going to do it that fancy, but I could program in some randomness to position them, program in their length randomness.

A. Michael Noll, A. Michael Noll on 1960s Computer Art at Bell Labs

If you imagine Mondrian doing his rectangular subdivision in 2D space, he has probably sketched hundreds, thousands of these. He understands the form quite well.

Dmitri Cherniak, Dmitri Cherniak on Strictly for Art