take a look at Piet Mondrian's stylistic development, from the early 1910's symbolist Red Tree, his post Cubist period, his minimal work of the 1930's and his famous Boogie-Woogie from 1943.
What's the lesson?
1- adherence to rules,
2- dutch aesthetics,
3- conceptual rigor,
4- less is more,
5- go slowly,