De Stijl Flashcards
An art movement founded in 1917 in the Netherlands by a group of artists and architects, characterized by black and white with primary colors, rectangular forms, and asymmetry.
De Stijl
Dutch artist who simplified the elements of his artwork to reflect the order underlying the visible world, limiting his palette to black, white, red, yellow, and blue.
Piet Mondrian
A painting by Piet Mondrian that exemplifies his use of black, white, and primary colors.
Composition in Yellow and Blue
A Dutch architect and designer who was a key figure in the De Stijl movement and designed the Schroder House.
Gerrit Rietveld
A De Stijl architectural work in Holland by Gerrit Rietveld, featuring facades as a collage of planes and lines with a changeable open-zone interior.
Schroder House
A Dutch painter and designer associated with De Stijl, known for his theoretical contributions to the movement.
Theo Van Doesburg
A painting by Pablo Picasso that translates to ‘streetwalkers of Avignon,’ depicting women from multiple perspectives.
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
A painting by Pablo Picasso that serves as a historical documentation of the war in Spain.
Guernica
A painting by Pablo Picasso featuring a distorted reflection of a girl.
Girl Before A Mirror
A painting by Pablo Picasso from his Blue Period depicting a musician.
Old Guitarist
A painting by Georges Braque that exemplifies Cubist representation of musical instruments.
Piano & the Mandola
A painting by Georges Braque that presents a fragmented view of a violin and a candlestick.
Violin & the Candlestick
A painting by Marcel Duchamp depicting motion through Cubist abstraction, though later associated with Dadaism.
Nude Descending the Stairs
French artist known for his association with both Cubism and Dadaism, though critics did not credit his work as Cubist.
Marcel Duchamp
