Coco Chanel's Design: An Analysis Of The De Stijl Movement

My aim with this essay is to describe the modernism époque as well as some of the artworks from artists who lived and had a close relation with that period, with a fulfilling understanding of the concepts and ideas created. I will emphasis on the Bauhaus period followed by the Expressionism period highlighting Kandinsky and his painting “Composition VII”. Then I will explain the De Stijl movement subsequently Rietveld and his design “The Red Blue chair”. Afterwards I will describe Coco Chanel and her design “The little black dress”.
Modernism was a radical approach to regenerate the way modern civilization viewed life, art, politics, and science. The roots emerged between 1900 and 1930 had, as its fundamentals, the rejection of European culture
The chair which is exposed in the museum it’s an early version of the Red Blue chair, was constructed of unstained beech wood and was not painted until the early 1923. The design is now recognized with the geometrical style and the primary colours, Blue, yellow, red, used by the influential De Stijl movement.
The De Stijl movement worked with the goal that all art has to have dynamic and equilibrium. We can associate this movement to a well-known painter, Mondrian, and we can see that they both share the same form of abstraction. Started in 1917 till 1931, it was based in Netherlands and it had as ideals elements such geometric forms and primary colours. They aim to connect the functional with form. The movement emerged after the World War I and their wishes were to remake society. Their members embrace a utopian vision and their vision of art was a social and spiritual improvement. The techniques were pure geometric forms, straight lines and the use of primary colours. (Tate.org.uk, 2016)
The furniture that Rietveld designed was built for himself, as a result there is no specific prototype of the chair, only a number of similar
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