Color-block painting, or color-block art, is defined as the research of combining colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel to create fascinating and complimentary color combinations. It is frequently connected with a trend inspired by the artwork of the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. Others, however, question if his work is the genuine genesis of color-blocking. Most historians think that Piet Mondrian, a painter who flourished around 1900 and whose works were a combination of harsh lines and flattened squares, influenced the present color-blocking movement. Mondrian admired the simplicity and so experimented with how far he might simplify his works while yet retaining identifiable, albeit abstract, geometric patterns. Mondrian subsequently dubbed this painting technique Neo-Plasticism.