De Stijl pronounced da stail, after style; from the Dutch for "The Style" —
also known as neoplasticism, was a Dutch artistic movement founded in 1917. By designer and painter Theo van Deosburg in 1917 in
According to the Tate Gallery’s online article on neoplasticism, Mondrian himself sets forth these delimitations in his essay 'Neo-Plasticism in Pictorial Art'. He writes, "... this new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary, it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and colour,
The Guggenheim Museum's online article on De Stijl summarizes these traits in similar terms: 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. "
In many of the group's three-dimensional works, vertical and horizontal lines are positioned in layers or planes that do not intersect, thereby allowing each element to exist independently and unobstructed by other elements
De Stijl proposed ultimate simplicity and abstraction, both in architecture and painting, by using only straight horizontal and vertical lines and rectangular forms.. The works avoided symmetry and attained aesthetic balance by the use of opposition.
De Stijl movement was influenced by Cubist painting as well as by the mysticism and the ideas about "ideal" geometric forms The works of De Stijl would influence the architecture as well as clothing and interior design.
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