The De Stijl Movement

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IN ABSTRACT - DE STIJL Student Name : Elvina Mulyani Sindartha Student ID : S3515665 This essay will be talking about the fourth-week lecture, In Abstract – De Stijl. Founded by Theo van Doesburg and a group of several artists and architects, De Stijl was an avant-garde visual art and architectural movement. Artists like Piet Mondrian and Gerrit Thomas Rietveld were also associated with the movement. This movement began in 1917 during the first world war and it lasted until roughly 1931. Later when the first world war ended, there are some external influences came again to influence the De Stijl’s group. Amongst them were Bauhaus, a German design and architecture school), Russian Constructivism, and some of Dadaism. De Stijl is not …show more content…

The De Stijl artists were more concerned about the nature of form in colour themselves, rather than the appearance of the surroundings around them. The artworks that were made in De Stijl’s movement era are very simple. The compositions are asymmetrical made from simple horizontal and vertical lines and only using basic shapes like rectangles or squares. Their artworks are reduced to just using the colour palettes that only uses primary colours (red, yellow, and blue) and black lines. The De Stijl artists wanted to create a brave new white canvas experience by replacing the brown world of lyricism and ambiguity to reflect modern art . Also, they totally refused to use concrete component into their designs. The goal of De Stijl movement was to create balance and a relationship between form, space, and colour. Moreover, universal harmony was the main focus of the De Stijl promoting a utopian perception. Neo-positivism and cubism painting have big influences the art in this movement. In fact, the work itself are …show more content…

He was a skilled cabinet maker and spent almost his entire life making furniture. So, he was able to handcraft many of his own designs. In 1917, he opened his own furniture shop. Not long after, he joined the De Stijl movement in 1919. The design and creation of the chair actually did not begin with the ideas of De Stijl. Hence, it was not quite successful image of the De Stijl concept because the modernist concept of space is made into something traditional with the Red and Blue chair. The red and blue chair was designed first and was originally left with a natural wood finish, but was later finished according to the strict De Stijl colour scheme in the early 1920s. Bart van der Leck, was an architect and a fellow member of the De Stijl who saw the original design and suggested to Rietveld to add colours onto the chair. This chair was considered as one of the first explorations in 3-Dimensions in the De Stijl movement. It was named after its bright colours (Watson-Smyth 2013). The chair is mostly made up of black pieces, with red and blue colouring the flat planes. Moreover, throughout the chair there are slighty accents of yellow colour. Yet this chair is seen more as a sculpture in space and a work of art than a piece of furniture. Originally, it was left with a natural wood finish, but was later finished according to the strict De Stijl

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