The Netherlands-based De STIJL movement embraced an abstract, pared-down aesthetic centered in basic visual elements such as geometric forms and primary colors. Partly a reaction against the decorative excesses of Art Deco , the reduced quality of De STIJL art was envisioned by its creators as a universal visual language appropriate to the modern era, a time of a new, spiritualized world order.
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The De STIJL movement began in 1917 in Leiden, which is a city in South Holland in the Netherlands. It lasted until about 1931, which was the year when the founder, Theo van Doesburg, died and the encroaching political unrest from Nazi Germany began. The term De STIJL is Dutch and translates to “The Style” in English.
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Originally a publication, De STIJL, which means Style in Dutch, was a magazine in which the artists promoted their ideas on art and abstraction. De STIJL soon became a full-fledged movement which advocated a visual language consisting of precise geometric forms (primarily straight lines, squares and rectangles) and primary colours.
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May 19, 2012 . De STIJL. 1. De STIJL Ar. S.H.R.Jawahar Benazir Assistant Professor School of Architecture & Interior Design SRM UniversityBAUHAUS TO POST MODERNISM. 2. 2• De STIJL, or The Style, is an art and design movement founded in Holland by painters and architects around 1917.•. The movement strives to express universal concepts through elimination ...
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Nov 01, 2015 . De STIJL. 1. De STIJL SUBMITTED BY: SAKSHI AGGARWAL PRASHANT SHISHODIA VAIBHAV MUDGAL IDEAL SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE GHAZIABAD B.ARCH III YEAR. 2. INTRODUCTION • In Dutch, “De STIJL” means “The Style”, also known as neoplasticism. • It is a school of art founded in Holland in 1917 (to 1931) typically using rectangular forms and the ...
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De STIJL is also the name of a journal that was published by the Dutch painter, designer, writer, and critic Theo van Doesburg that served to propagate the group's theories. Along with van Doesburg, the group's principal members were the painters Piet Mondrian , Vilmos Huszár , Bart van der Leck , and the architects Gerrit Rietveld , Robert van 't Hoff , and J. J. P. Oud .
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The "DC02 De STIJL" version was produced in a limited edition. It pays homage to the Dutch design movement's radical use of color to highlight function and form, turning a …
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De STIJL – Abstraction in Architecture An essay by Anthony Zonaga examining the permeation of neoplasticism into the field of architecture and its consequent influence on modern design Preface Following the turn of the 20th century, a plethora of new philosophies and ideals emerged from changing social, economic, technological and cultural factors, demanding a new way of thinking.
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De STIJL: Album De L'Exposition|Brigitte Leal, The Pilgrim's Manual of Devotion to Good Saint Anne, St. Anne De Beaupré (Classic Reprint)|G. M. Ward, Darkened Passages: A Collection of Dark Fantasy|Duane Gundrum, Unaddressed Letters. [London]|Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham
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Dec 28, 2017 . The name De STIJL is used to refer to a body of work made from 1917 to the mid 20th century. In 2017 museums, galleries and outdoor spaces in the Netherlands have been marking this 100 year anniversary in their own ways; each exploring different viewpoints and angles of the movement.
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He strove for universal synthesis rather than Dutch nationalism, as evidenced in “Manifesto 1 of ‘De STIJL,’ 1918,” published in Dutch, French, German, and English as “De STIJL,” “Le Styl,” “Der Stil,” and “The Style” De STIJL set out to negate the concept of style in a universal language through communicative art and architecture, and the concise format of the manifesto was its primary textual vehicle.
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The Dutch De STIJL movement was influenced by Cubism, although it sought a greater abstract purity in its geometric formalism. Organized in Leiden in 1917, the painters Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg and the architects Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud and Gerrit Thomas Rietveld were counted among…
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What was De STIJL? This fascinating survey, the most comprehensive book to be published on the subject, seeks to unravel that question and to consider how the theory of De STIJL (Dutch for "The Style") matched its actual practice.
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Jun 08, 2018 . De STIJL's production of fluid and flexible space and its integration of interior and exterior were subsumed into the rhetoric of International Style architecture. Sources of De STIJL include the British Arts and Crafts movement, which similarly included moral considerations in its innovations in design and practice, and cubism.
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De STIJL, Vol.1, no.1, Delft, October 1917, edited by Theo van Doesburg. Cover of the first 12 issues, 1917–1931 (detail), original design by Vilmos Huszár De STIJL ( / də ˈstaɪl /; Dutch pronunciation: [də ˈstɛil] ), Dutch for "The Style", also known as Neoplasticism, was a Dutch art movement founded in 1917 in Leiden.
Originally a publication, De STIJL, which means Style in Dutch, was a magazine in which the artists promoted their ideas on art and abstraction. De STIJL soon became a full-fledged movement which advocated a visual language consisting of precise geometric forms (primarily straight lines, squares and rectangles) and primary colours.
Written By: De STIJL, (Dutch: “The Style”) group of Dutch artists in Amsterdam in 1917, including the painters Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, and Vilmos Huszár, the architect Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud, and the poet A. Kok; other early associates of De STIJL were Bart van der Leck, Georges Vantongerloo, Jan Wils, and Robert van’t Hoff.
At a glance it may seem that the colours and lines are random with no order but each painting has a system; they are asymmetrical and usually have a dominant block of colour which is balanced with smaller blocks around it to create a ‘fluctuating rhythm’.
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