100 years of "de stijl" aka "the style".

[Peter King]

De Stijl, Dutch for "the style" is an art movement that started 100 years ago. It was started in 1917 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The most famous artist from this movie is a world wide known painter, Piet Mondriaan.



This is the style he is most famous for, Neoplasticism (very abstract). Some of his paintings have gone for stupid money (like a lot of other art).

Another famous person in the movement was Gerrit Rietveld, famous for his architecture and also for his famous furniture, one of his most famous works is:



He is also as said well known for his architecture, some of which have been placed on the Unesco world heritage list. Famous is the Rietveld Schroder house

Today our King opened an exposition in the Hague of works by Mondriaan and van der Leck.

Van der Leck is also a painting from the same movement, this is one of his paintings:

 

[Moot]

Thanks, Peter. That was refreshing to look at...and a nice break from politics.

This dress by Yves St. Laurent was inspired by Mondrian....

 

[Lutherf]

De Stijl, Dutch for "the style" is an art movement that started 100 years ago. It was started in 1917 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The most famous artist from this movie is a world wide known painter, Piet Mondriaan.


This is the style he is most famous for, Neoplasticism (very abstract). Some of his paintings have gone for stupid money (like a lot of other art).

Another famous person in the movement was Gerrit Rietveld, famous for his architecture and also for his famous furniture, one of his most famous works is:



He is also as said well known for his architecture, some of which have been placed on the Unesco world heritage list. Famous is the Rietveld Schroder house

Today our King opened an exposition in the Hague of works by Mondriaan and van der Leck.

Van der Leck is also a painting from the same movement, this is one of his paintings:

I caught a Mondrian exhibit in Seattle several years go and was surprised to see how many adjustments he made to his pieces. For instance, his Composition 1917 - https://pietmondrianblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/piet-mondrian_1917-1917_composition.jpg - was retouched all over the place. I'm not sure what he was looking at as he created the piece but it changed a LOT before he called it complete.

 

[Peter King]

I caught a Mondrian exhibit in Seattle several years go and was surprised to see how many adjustments he made to his pieces. For instance, his Composition 1917 - https://pietmondrianblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/piet-mondrian_1917-1917_composition.jpg - was retouched all over the place. I'm not sure what he was looking at as he created the piece but it changed a LOT before he called it complete.

I do like the overall style of the "stijl" but I am more a fan of Magritte, van Gogh, Dali, Picasso and painters like that. I like to see what a picture means, even if the true meaning is much deeper than can be seen from the piece at first.

I am not sure Mondriaan was seeing anything at all. But he did not start with such abstract works, this is one of his too http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lTM7i_A30ys/TzywaWgRFXI/AAAAAAAAAXY/sWKv10mx7c8/s1600/Mondriaan+-+Bos+bij+Oele.jpg and it isn't really abstract yet, you can see what it means at least.

This for example is too from Mondriaan



as is this



He was able to also create non-abstract art, so maybe he did see an image in his abstract work, even though I doubt it, I think he saw more of a shape/feeling than a traditional "image".