Boot Screen Splash Image Removal Raspberry PI4

You mentioned the OS as Ubuntu Mate.

If you're running Raspbian, then edit /boot/cmdline.txt and remove the same words from the boot command. Sample command below:

console=serial0,115200 console=tty1 root=PARTUUID=7635a043-02 rootfstype=ext4 fsck.repair=yes rootwait quiet splash plymouth.ignore-serial-consoles