DE STIJL

Rosemarie G. Fernandez

• Dutch for "The Style", also known as

neoplasticism,

• a Dutch artistic movement founded in

1917 in Amsterdam.

• the term De Stijl is used to refer to a body

of work from 1917 to 1931 founded in the

Netherlands.

• In the early 1920's a group of architects and artists,

influenced by some of the ideas of DaDa, formed a

movement called de Stijl (Dutch for The Style).

• It 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.

• The artistic philosophy that formed a basis for the

group's work is known as neoplasticism—the new

plastic art (or Nieuwe Beelding in Dutch).

Theo van Doesburg (1883–1931)

painter, writer, poet and architect

Counter Composition V (1924)

Arithmetic Composition (1929-30)

Piet Mondrian(1872–1944)

painter

Composition A (1920)

Vilmos Huszár(1884–1960)

interior designer, graphic designer, painter

Mechano-Dancer (1922)

Bart van der Leck(1876–1958)

painter, designer, and ceramacist

Gerrit Rietveld(1888–1964)

furniture designer and architect

Red Blue Chair (1923)

Rietveld Schroder House (1924)

Robert van 't Hoff(1887–1979)

architect and furniture designer

Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud (1890–1963)

architect

Proponents of De Stijl advocated:

• pure abstraction and universality by a

reduction to the essentials of form and colour;

• simplified visual compositions to the vertical

and horizontal directions

• used only primary colors along with black and

white

• only primary colours and non-colours, only

squares and rectangles, only straight and

horizontal or vertical line.

“De Stijl was posited on the fundamental

principle of the geometry of the straight line,

the square, and the rectangle, combined with

a strong asymmetricality; the predominant

use of pure primary colors with black and

white; and the relationship between positive

and negative elements in an arrangement of

non-objective forms and lines".

PAINTINGS

POSTERS

FURNITURES

ARCHITECTURE

INTERIOR DESIGNS

FASHION

COLORS

TYPOGRAPHY

REFERENCES

• http://www.theartstory.org/movement-de-stijl.htm#

• http://char.txa.cornell.edu/art/decart/destijl/decstijl.htm

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Stijl

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