De Stijl

De Stijl, ‘The Style’. De Stijl was a Dutch artistic movement founded 1917 in Amsterdam by artists Piet Mondrian, Theo Van Doesburg and architect Gerrit Reitveld. You could say this movement demonstrates simplicity and abstraction. The new art movement was inexpensive and was seen to express visual harmony. The idea of visual harmony emerged greatly from the response to the tragedy of World War and was dedicated to reconstruct a brave new world out of the ruins of the old. De Stijl was made up of geometric forms, usually straight lines, squares, rectangles, and primary colours. The primary colours are aimed to create peacefulness and harmony within this style of art. De Stijl was very much linked to Cubism, another artistic movement which was
Mondrian was inspired by nature and the rise of cubism gave Mondrian reasons to segment and reduce objects to their most simplistic forms, the process of simplifying and reducing meant that Mondrian wasn’t painting from nature at all (Mondrian, undated). Avond (Evening): The Red Tree. You could suggest that this painting from Mondrian showed clearly the representational form of a tree, and that this painting is indicating texture, from applying oil onto the canvas in different ways. The appearance of primary colours are evolving (Mondrian, 1908). In comparison, The Gray Tree, 1912, is one of the first paintings in which Mondrian demonstrated his new way of working with cubism before the De Stijl group was founded. (Mondrian, 1942) from the evidence of both pieces of work, You could compare how Mondrian began using different techniques of brushstrokes which then started to created forms of horizontal rectangles and lines within the painting. Evidence could suggest that Mondrian removed entire colour to show boldness and tones (Mondrian, undated) From this, Mondrian could agree he was showing his own style of cubism developing. In comparison, referring back to artist Otto Dix, his style of work is completely the opposite too Mondrian’s. Dix’s work is very realistic and detailed with figurative style; his work gives you the sense of emotion and feelings through his paintings of the war. He uses
The house continues to impress architects and interior designers with its innovative solutions and design. (Rietveld, undated) (Rietveld, 1924). The design of the house took place from the interior, and reflected the exterior, the design really shows Rietveld’s modern approach to design. The interior of this house was so simplistic, however it had great detail and character. To go with this fascinating house was the Red and Blue Chair (Rietveld, 1917). It is clear that this neoplastic chair became a statement for the De Stijl, the frame fitting together by overlapping and the use of primary colours, show acknowledgment to Mondrian’s composition paintings (Rietveld, undated). Evidence suggests that this building drew lots of attention from people who lived and passed by, because of its wacky appearance compared to other buildings and houses where it was situated. From the evidence found, The Schroder house is a monument not only showing the relationship between a mother and her children but also between the architect and the client (White, 2003, p129). Today the house is considered to be one of the significant achievements of the De Stijl movement and is still looked at today for inspiration of the early modern