De Stijl

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De Stijl, art form that is very stylized and simple, yet beautiful, is one of modernism movements that happened in twentieth century and has given big impact to the design world. With Theo van Doesburg at the head of the list, several artists such as Mondrian…. developed De Stijl. Their unique style only influenced form of painting, but also their influence reached from of architecture. While number of modernism movements were against art from the past and they tried to create completely new style of art, De Stijl movement tries to establish relationship between past and future of art. De Stijl movement was innovation of basic grid concept of art from the past, and pursued their utopia of art with international appeal. Their goal was to establish perfect relationship and balance between form, space, and color. Their style of art has spread to various kinds of art forms such as painting, furniture, and architecture. Although this movement lasted for about ten years, De Stijl has left great impact to the art world.

De Stijl is the magazine that established in 1917 by Theo van Doesburg. Their art form consists of very basic style, which is horizontal and vertical grid with three primary colors – red, yellow, and blue. They pursue an alternate design by only using those simple elements. Theo van Doesburg has a strong belief in his form of art, and was so passionate to what he wanted to achieve. えばーとふぁん stated that Doesburg finds developing seeds and make it grow deeper and deeper. Doesburg took developed artworks from past and developed more to make it new twenties century art form (Japanese,p45).

Along with a big effort of Doesburg, there was a big help by Mondrian to establish De Stijl. Even though Doesburg had a strong belief and also did paintings, he needed Mondrian’s help to develop his idea further more. Therefore, they published De Stijl in 1917 although Doesburg had a proposal of De Stijl movement in 1915 (Japanese, p20). Doesburg needed not an editor for his magazine but artists who had same ideology or sense of value towards art with him and is willing to share their ideas. He met some artists that might have had potential for that such as a poet, Wichmann, or a painter, Janus de Winter, but neither of them had chemistry with Doesburg (Japanese, p21). Wichmann was too nihilistic for Doesburg. Janus de Winter and Doesburg had similar personality which prefer being isolated; however, they had opposite styles of art, to be specific, Doesbur’s art is silent while Janus de Winter’s one was very dynamic or dramatic.

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