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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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The painting epitomizes the primary colors and geometric rigidity of the de Stijl movement that Mondrian helped define.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023

“We were looking at Cassandre, Herbert Bayer, Italian Futurism, Russian Constructivism and de Stijl for inspiration.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2023

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

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

But Ex and his colleagues reckon this is the first time that anyone has built an open-storage facility to house an entire museum collection – early Netherlandish paintings to Renaissance silverware and De Stijl design.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 21, 2020

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

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2018

Modernist homes can also fall into the sub-categories of Bauhaus, De Stijl, Futurism and Constructivism styles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2017

Ms. Herrera spent six years in this richly intellectual expatriate scene, where she encountered, for the first time, canonical works by Malevich, Mondrian and other artists of Suprematism and De Stijl.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2016