key terms:
theo van doesburg: de stijl journalpiet mondrian
piet zwart
hendrik werkman: next call magazine
de stijl:
-"the style"
-a.k.a. neoplasticism
-a.k.a. neoplasticism
-1917
-wanted to restore order after WWI through art
-no ideology superimposed on it
-utopian & neutral
-underlying grid (suggested order & calm)
-moved away from nationalism which they thought started WWI
-"the old is connected with the individual; the new is connected with the universal"
-pure abstraction & universality by reduction to the essentials of form & color
-vertical, horizontal
-use black, white, & primary colors
-relationship between positive & negative elements in an arrangement of non-objective forms & lines
-pure abstraction & universality by reduction to the essentials of form & color
-vertical, horizontal
-use black, white, & primary colors
-relationship between positive & negative elements in an arrangement of non-objective forms & lines
-simplicity, rectangular forms
-avoided symmetry & attained aesthetic balance by the use of opposition
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| netherlands = neutral during WWI |
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| city: leiden |
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| tableau 2- mondrian absolute purity order & harmony restore order in aftermath of WWI complete abstraction- eliminating references to nature primary colors |
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| theo van doesburg took leadership role for de stijl |
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| van doesburg pens a manifesto |
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| van doesburg's evolution path towards non-objetivity process of simplification, abstraction, purification |
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| van doesburg starts a journal: de stijl circulates ideas widely through europe |
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| typeface by van doesburg |
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| mondrian 1920 |
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| piet zwart realized modern aesthetic could be monetized |
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| piet zwart created this typehead for jan wils |
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| piet zwart's own personal logo zwart means black |
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| self-portrait- piet zwart |
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| piet zwart kitchen design modular clean, seamless lines |
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| reduced palette |
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| zwart's work for NKF: dutch cable manufacturing company see vitality of dada movement & russian constructivism |
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| zwart |
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| zwart |
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| zwart |
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| zwart limited words |
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| zwart english version of NKF's catalog |
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| hendrick werkman |
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| werkman compacting visual information even further |
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| werkman experimentation w typography ink & rollers pages from his journal: next call |
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| werkman commemorate death of lenin |
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| cover of next call- werkman bold, limited palette purity & clarity |
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| calendar- werkman |
- much of werkman's work was destroyed when he was arrested by nazis
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| doesburg & schwitters (dada-ist) collaboration yelling colors of de stijl, chaos of dada combining both styles |
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| dadaists, constructivists, de stijl-ists get together at constructivist congress ("let's reconstruct the world") |
- 1922: van doesburg is in germany to teach at the bauhaus
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| garrett rietveld |
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| rietveld tried to translate de stijl ideas into 3D |
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