De Stijl

See also: De Stijl (homonymy)

De Stijl (to pronounce die stéyl , of the Dutch the style ) is a review of Visual art and Architecture, published 1917 with 1928, under the impulse of Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg. By extension, De Stijl indicates a whole artistic movement, resulting from the Néo-plasticisme and having deeply influenced the architecture of the 20th century (in particular the Bauhaus, the Avant-garde, the international Style).

The ambition of Stijl was to give a new direction to arts by bringing closer them around the desire to destruction to the Figuratif, and to use of colors and pure forms .

In addition to Van Doesburg and Mondrian, it is necessary to quote V. Huszár, G. Severini, P. Oud, G. Rietveld, G. Vantongerloo and Jean Arp.

The end of Stijl was precipitated by increasingly projecting divergences between its two founding members, Van Doesburg reproaching Mondrian its lack of freedom and imagination in creation.

Painting

In the pictorial field, the movement De Stijl is characterized by a strict limitation of the means:

  • use only of the primary colors (blue, yellow, red), of the white and the black;
  • use only of straight lines and orthogonal;
  • the colors are applied in flat tint, without mixture or range;
  • the forms are limited to rectangles;
  • dynamization of space by the play of the diagonals.

These principles are also found in the architectural achievements.

Quotations

What I assert, it is the controllable form for painting, the sculpture, and the architecture.

Theo van Doesburg

Only the pure aspect of the elements, in balanced proportions, can attenuate the tragedy in the life and the art.

Piet Mondrian

Achievements

The interior installation of the building of the Bus shelter in Strasbourg.

See too

  • Proclamation of 1924, " Towards an architecture plastique"

  • Insecula, of many illustrations in all the fields of Stijl
  • the collection Roland
  • Room De Stijl in the center Pompidou
  • concrete Art

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