1930–35; < Dutch: literally, the style, the name of a magazine published by participants in the movement
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“We were looking at Cassandre, Herbert Bayer, Italian Futurism, Russian Constructivism and de Stijl for inspiration.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
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
She combined novel combinations of lacquer, metal, celluloid, eggs, zebra skin and pashmina, creating otherworldly objects that, as De Stijl architect Jan Wils put it, appeared to have been “born in a dream”.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2020
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
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
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