De Stijl
De Stijl was an art, architectural and
design movement, which started in 1917
in Netherlands after World War 1. The name “De Stijl” was taken from a magazine
edited by the Dutch painter, designer, writer and critic Theo van Doesburg. Some artists recognized
with this movement were the painters Theo van Doesburg
who was also the founder of this movement, Piet Mondrian,
and also architect Gerrit Reitveld. Their intentions
were to simplify art to totally abstraction; they used rectangles and other
geometrical shapes, while colour was limited to primary colours and non colours
black and white. They also eliminated
subject matter and avoided symmetry. One of the most important works was that
of Gerrit Rietveld's Schroeder House, which was the most completed,
since they managed to build very few of their designs. They
were influenced by some ideas of Dada and they managed to combine art and
design together, which had been separated since the end of Renaissance.
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