De Stijl or style began as a design magazine in which publications are made regarding the search for universal laws that occur in the visible reality, but are hidden by outward appearances of things.The magazine was a forum, not a closed circle and homogeneous circle.
It was a movement in architecture, painting, sculpture, decoration and design industry-oriented execution of works in all the arts, and had an active life from 1917-1931.
Stijl is a variant of abstract art, characteristic of modernity. This art was not intended as reproductive, illustrative, anecdotal as it had been until then the traditional art. I wanted to be understood from itself, without reference to the world of objects or figurative reproduction. From the fundamentals of visual arts was intended configure a new ideal world.
"Undress to the nature of all forms and just be the style "
In this sentence the name of the movement was born, soon joined other artists: painters like Bart van der Leck and Piet Mondrian, furniture designer Gerrit Rietveld, painters and sculptors Georges Vantongerloo and Cesar Domela, the architects JJP Oud, Van't Hoff R., painter and designer Vilmos Huszar, the poet Anthony Kok, filmmaker Hans Richter, designers Peter Röhl and Werner Graeff and others.
Mondrian's paintings are the source from which philosophy and visual forms of De Stijl developed.
The name Stijl is often used to designate their creations and figure in the history of art as the Dutch contribution to modern art.
Main characteristics of the Movement?Stijl moved back to the very foundations of art:
Shape and the color
Surface and the line.
From these elements Stijl artists developed a new visual language and shaped an ideal world counterpart to the real world.
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