Dropping out of the Slade Art School in 1919 (recalling, ‘I destroyed my own personality and created a new one’), Moss went to Paris in 1927 to study, where they were brought to the attention of Piet Mondrian (who they are now recognised to have influenced). Taken by the recent technological advances of the early twentieth century, Moss developed their ‘Constructivist’ language in dialogue with Mondrian, inventing the ‘double-line’ (two thin black lines running in parallel with each other), often with block primary colours.
