De Stijl 

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De Stijl movement was founded in the Netherlands .

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From 1917 - 1931

The term 'De Stijl' is a Dutch term for 'The style'

The two pioneers of the movement were artists by the names of:

Piet Mondrian & Theo van Doesburg (Steyn)

De Stijl focused on the simplification of art and life in all aspects.

It was the Utopian idea of spiritual harmony and order. They digested every element of art and deconstructed it to make it as pure as possible.

Expressing harmony is believed to be the law of the universe and everything was righteous - they believed their work was a pure path to the truth in all perspectives.

In doing this they stripped down art to its barest/purest & lived according to this too.

Chaos was too complicated and had no place in the world they had an idea for, an ordered world. (Steyn)

Simplifying everything - in Art: How they do this is by using

The 3 primary colours only

Blue

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Red

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Yellow

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With these three colours, you are able to create any colour and non of the other colours can create these colours.

After it being established and after a few years of its existence, other forms of art adapted the De Stijl Aesthetics,

Architecture

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Furniture

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In terms of form they resorted only to 90 degree angled shapes, 

Rectangles

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Squares

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The reason behind this is because all you need is line and angle to complete the figure, using only vertical and horizontal lines.

Piet Mondrian

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Born: 7 March 1872

in Amersfoort Netherlands 

Mondrian was a theorist artist and writer, He believed that art reflected the underlying spirituality of all things organic. He simplified the subjects of his paintings down to the most barest components, in order to reveal the essence of the mystical energy in the balance of forces that governed nature and the universe.

part of why the reason why Mondrian made everything in rectangles and squares, everything is parallel and two sides have to have the exact length in distance. (Hughes,2017)

His use of asymmetrical balance and a simplified pictorial style were crucial in the development of modern art, the development of art and his iconic abstract works remain influential in all forms of design and familiar in, not only contemporary art nut also in today's popular culture to this day.

 (Hughes,2017)

Biblography

Hughes,R.2017. Piet Mondrian Artist. Available:http://www.theartstory.org/artist-mondrian-piet.htm [Accessed on 19 May 2017]

Steyn. D, 2016. ACHG200, De Stijl. Pearson Institute of Higher Education