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  de Stijl

  noun

  a school of art that was founded in the Netherlands in 1917, embraced painting, sculpture, architecture, furniture, and the decorative arts, and was marked especially by the use of black and white with the primary colors, rectangular forms, and asymmetry.
• De Stijl
  De Stijl

  noun

  a group of artists and architects in the Netherlands in the 1920s, including Mondrian and van Doesburg, devoted to neoplasticism and then dada

de Stijl

American  

[duh stahyl] / də ˈstaɪl /

Or De Stijl

noun

1. a school of art that was founded in the Netherlands in 1917, embraced painting, sculpture, architecture, furniture, and the decorative arts, and was marked especially by the use of black and white with the primary colors, rectangular forms, and asymmetry.

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De Stijl British  

/ də staɪl /

noun

1. a group of artists and architects in the Netherlands in the 1920s, including Mondrian and van Doesburg, devoted to neoplasticism and then dada

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Etymology

Origin of de Stijl

1930–35; < Dutch: literally, the style, the name of a magazine published by participants in the movement

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Completed in 1930, the painting epitomizes the primary colors and geometric rigidity of the de Stijl movement that Mondrian helped define.

From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2022

Both were connected to the early-20th-century abstract art movement de Stijl, known for geometric shapes and primary colors.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2020

He also used primary colors and clear lines favored by members of the Dutch de Stijl movement, a pared-down, abstract aesthetic heralded by artists like Mondrian and the designer Gerrit Rietveld.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2017

Hariri & Hariri are versatile designers, flexible in their Modernism, and they appropriated a de Stijl design vocabulary straight from the Museum of Modern Art a dozen blocks away.

From Architectural Digest ● Jan. 1, 2010

Nothing could sound more universal than the Style, or de Stijl as its Dutch founders dubbed it in 1917.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the co-founder of the De Stijl art group and movement, and in search of "universal beauty", he evolved a non-representational form which he termed Neoplasticism.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2022

It kind of reminds me of something out of the De Stijl movement.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2018

“It’s kind of a Norman Rockwell scene which is loaded with art references, including Dutch 17th century paintings, the De Stijl movement and Piet Mondrian with his rectilinear compositions and reliance on only primary colors.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2017

On De Stijl, the White Stripes grew their raw sound, adding country twang on I’m Bound to Pack It Up and hinting that White was more than a mere MC5 revivalist.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 11, 2017

That year also saw the temporary appointment of Theo van Doesburg, the founder of the Dutch De Stijl movement, who influenced Bauhaus’s aesthetic shift toward constructivism.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2016