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De Stijl (/ d ə ˈ s t aɪ l /, Dutch: [də ˈstɛil]; 'The Style') was a Dutch art movement founded in 1917 by a group of artists and architects based in Leiden (Theo van Doesburg, J.J.P. Oud), Voorburg (Vilmos Huszár, Jan Wils) and Laren (Piet Mondrian, Bart van der Leck).
Pablo Picasso, 1910, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), oil on canvas, 100.3 × 73.6 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement begun in Paris that revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and influenced artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture.
This is a list of art movements in alphabetical order. These terms, helpful for curricula or anthologies , evolved over time to group artists who are often loosely related. Some of these movements were defined by the members themselves, while other terms emerged decades or centuries after the periods in question.
The Readymade expanded the definition of art and of an artist. [4] 1917 – De Stijl, a kind of art based on pure geometry, was invented by Theo van Doesburg. 1926 – Science fiction movies were invented by Fritz Lang with his movie Metropolis, which incorporates dynamic visual and special effects. [1]
In painting, during the 1920s and 1930s and the Great Depression, modernism was defined by Surrealism, late Cubism, Bauhaus, De Stijl, Dada, German Expressionism, and modernist and masterful color painters like Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard as well as the abstractions of artists like Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky which characterized ...
Neoplasticism (or neo-plasticism), originating from the Dutch Nieuwe Beelding, is an avant-garde art theory proposed by Piet Mondrian [a] in 1917 and initially employed by the De Stijl art movement. The most notable proponents of this theory were Mondrian and another Dutch artist, Theo van Doesburg . [ 1 ]
This is a chronological list of periods in Western art history. An art period is a phase in the development of the work of an artist , groups of artists or art movement . Ancient Classical art
Purism does not intend to be a scientific art, which it is in no sense. Cubism has become a decorative art of romantic ornamentism. There is a hierarchy in the arts: decorative art is at the base, the human figure at the summit. Painting is as good as the intrinsic qualities of its plastic elements, not their representative or narrative ...