de Stijl
noun
: a school of art founded in Holland in 1917 typically using rectangular forms and the primary colors plus black and white and asymmetric balance
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The painting epitomizes the primary colors and geometric rigidity of the de Stijl movement that Mondrian helped define.
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Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 3 May 2024
Paintings based on First Nations designs or beadwork also emulate the orderliness of Germany’s Bauhaus school and the Netherlands’ de Stijl movement.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
In 1936, MoMA’s first director Alfred H. Barr Jr. drew a famous diagram of modern art’s development, with arrows leading from Cézanne to Cubism, thence to de Stijl and Dada, and triumphantly to abstraction.
—Roberta Smith, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2020
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Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 3 May 2024
Paintings based on First Nations designs or beadwork also emulate the orderliness of Germany’s Bauhaus school and the Netherlands’ de Stijl movement.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
In 1936, MoMA’s first director Alfred H. Barr Jr. drew a famous diagram of modern art’s development, with arrows leading from Cézanne to Cubism, thence to de Stijl and Dada, and triumphantly to abstraction.
—Roberta Smith, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2020
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