Stijln.
/stʌɪl/ The name of a movement in art and architecture associated with the Dutch periodical De Stijl (1917–32), founded by Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian, and devoted to the principles of neo-plasticism. Frequently with article de. Also attributive and as adj.
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1934 J. J. Sweeney Plastic Redirections in 20th Cent. Painting 40 Piet Mondrian, member of the Dutch ‘de Stijl’ group and founder of the Neoplastic school, can..be taken as a producer of..‘abstractions’... Yet, Mondrian has said, ‘It is a great error to envisage a Neoplastic work as a total abstraction from life.’
1936 A. H. Barr Cubism & Abstract Art 142 In his Volume construction of 1918..the sculptor Vantongerloo applied the Stijl love of rectangles to sculpture.
1936 A. H. Barr Cubism & Abstract Art 158 Other of Gropius' buildings at Dessau were even more Stijl in character.
1945 R. Motherwell tr. Mondrian Plastic Art 14 In 1915 Theo van Doesburg..was making analogous researches. Together we formed a small group of artists and architects: the De Stijl Group.
1962 H. Myers tr. B. Pingaud Holland 168 The De Stijl (‘The Style’) group, founded in 1917, is dedicated to the fight for a geometric art.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia IX. 516/1 Whereas the Bauhaus offered freedom of expression.., de Stijl offered dogmatic straitjackets of verticals, horizontals, and primary colours.
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