Dutch for "the style", a purist art movement that began in the Netherlands during World War I involving painters, sculptors, designers and architects whose works and ideas were expressed De Stijl magazine. De Stijl wanted to create a universal language of form independent of individual emotion and thus pared down to primary colours, plus black and white, and rectangular shapes.
de Stijl was a Dutch design movement which started in 1917, it was formed by a group of architects and artists and was founded on the theories of Dutch architect Hendrik Berlage and drew in additional influences from the earlier Cubist and Futurist movements. It spread to become a major part of Rational design. It’s main characteristics were flat smooth geometric planes and fundamental construction. Frank Lloyd Wright was a major influence on the best designer of de Stijl furniture, Gerrit Rietvield.
(Du.- "style"] - Dutch abstract art movement founded in 1917 that reduced the natural world into constant, pure forms and colors, typically using geometric forms and primary colors supplemented by white, black and gray.
A Dutch form of art featuring primary colors within a balanced structure of lines and rectangles. It was a style to perfectly express the higher mystical unity between humankind and the universe. Translated as the Style it was the form of abstraction developed by Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg about 1914-17.
A Dutch art movement also known as neo-plasticism using rectangles and primary colors. The primary artist was Piet Mondrian.
(Also called Neo Plasticism) Lead primarily by painters Piet Mondian and Theo van Doesberg, De Stijl was an art movement that advocated reduction of form and simplistic abstraction. Most compositions or subjects were reduced to rectangles, primary colors and black and white. Their ideas were published by van Doesberg in a journal titled "De Stijl" (1917-1928) and written as a manifesto title "Neo-Plasticism" in 1920. Their work exerted tremendous influence on the Bauhaus Style in Germany.
A purist art movement with the style pared down to primary colours, plus black and white, and rectangular shapes. The movement began in the Netherlands during World War I by Mondrian and others, involving painters, sculptors, designers, and architects. The name was associated with their work as their works and ideas were expressed through the De Stijl (Dutch for “the style”) magazine. Their work exerted tremendous influence on the Bauhaus and the International Style.
De Stijl is the second album by American rock band The White Stripes, released in 2000 (see 2000 in music). The album reached #38 on Billboard magazine's Top Independent Albums chart in 2002 when The White Stripes' popularity began establishing itself.