After the war in the 1920's, a group of architects and designers formed a movement and called it 'De Stijl', which is Dutch for 'The Style'. The fonder and leader of this group of people was an architect called Theo van Doesburg. Two other important members were Gerit Rietveld and Piet Mondrian. This movement had some ideas that were influenced from DaDa. |
| Bauhaus Armchair 424 Red and Blue Gerrit Rietveld 1918 - Bauhaus classic |
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Theo van Doesburg, Cornelis van Eesteren, Model Maison d'Artiste,1923, reconstruction 1982, Collection Gemeentemuseum Den Haag |
-The basic philosophy of the group is known as Neo-Plasticism; the new plastic art.
-This movement was all about functionality.-Surface decoration was eliminated.
-The only colours that were allowed were primary hues and black and white only.
-They simplified everything to vertical and horizontal directions; designed on the principle of the straight line (the square and rectangle).
-The combination of positive and negative elements was vivid in the designs.
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Rietveld’s Shroder House
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of the very few examples of Neo-plasstic architecture is the Schroder House in
the Netherlands that was designed by Gerrit Rietveld.
-This
house is extremely important to this movement because one can
find multiple examples of murals, ceramic and interior installations designed in
the principles of Neo-plasticism, but there are very few architectural
structures. The Schroder House is the only existing example that remains to
this day.
Modern Artist Bryce Hudson
Bryce Hudson is one of the few contemporary artists that is presently working in the boundaries of geometric shapes, inspired by past movements.
-His multimedia prints and altered digital representations show influences of De Stijl and the later Minimalism movement of mid 20th century cannot go unnoticed.
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