The translation of the name from Dutch to English is The Style. This art movement was during 1917 and 1932 in Amsterdam. It influenced painting, typography, decorative arts and architecture. The artists were influenced by Analytical Cubism, but they failed to create complete abstract art. They searched for art that portrayed order and clarity. Art and painting was broken down into its elements by focusing on primary colours, straight lines, rectangles, plane surfaces and neutral colours. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2018)

Characteristics are commonly squares and rectangles, straight and horizontal lines, primary colours and non-colours. It is a Utopian idea of order and harmony. Reality is simplified to horizontal and vertical lines to show the harmony and purity in an abstract, aesthetic form.

Mondrian aimed to create an aesthetic geometry through pure art. The colours are neutrals with just black, white and gold. The composition consists of horizontal and vertical lines that, according to the artist, is to symbolise harmony in the universe. The lines are neither spiritual nor material.

The artwork shows duplicates of a cat sitting and facing different directions. The characteristics that this art work shares with De Stijl is the overwhelming use of horizontal and vertical pure lines along with neutral black and white colours with orange as the background.