De Stijl

Question 1

Answer 1

Piet Mondrian, Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1930

Post-war Netherlands “De Stijl”- “the Style”- Dutch history of repetitive ordering in 17th century genre painting

reject decorative excesses of pre-war and emotionally laden complexity of contemporary Expressionism

progressed through Cubist phases then radical simplification-reduce further to universal essence- “purity-“ does not reference outside world

harmony of universe= straight lines, orthogonal compositions, primary colors+ white, black, and gray

anyone can appreciate-universal-neo-Platonic