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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

In 1936, MoMA’s first director Alfred H. Barr Jr. drew a famous diagram of modern art’s development, with arrows leading from Cézanne to Cubism, thence to de Stijl and Dada, and triumphantly to abstraction.

From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2020

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

In achieving it, de Stijl changed and unified the appearance of the world.

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

The ensemble fires off references — De Stijl, Le Corbusier’s Unités d’Habitation, Manhattan tenements.

From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2021

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

Each is slightly different, fusing American Shaker and Dutch De Stijl elements and painted in solid neutrals of ivory, cream or black.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2016