De Stijl



De Stijl

This an abstract art movement that began on the year 1917. It was started by a group of artists and architects, they were influenced by some of the Dada ideas (De Stijl. 2017).





Piet Mondrain, Composition A, 1920. (Artnet News. 2017)


De Stijl artists and the movement itself put forward the idea of the ultimate simplicity and abstraction through which they could express a utopian idea of harmony and order. From the above image by Mondrain we can see that the harmony was established through minimalism and the use of geometric shapes and primary colors (Design Is History. 2017).




Kadi Sabi, klr. 2017



Similar to the De Stijl artworks the above artwork is simple, Sabi utilizes rectangular shapes along with primary colours. The difference is that Sabi does his work digitally and also adds more colours to the primary colours, Sabi also utilizes typography; when looking at the type one can see that Sabi uses simplicity by removing the vowels from the word "Kolor", simplified: KLR.






sources consulted

De Stijl. Char.txa.cornell.edu. N.p., 2017. Web. 19 May 2017.

Flask, Dominic. "De Stijl : Design Is History". Designishistory.com. N.p., 2017. Web. 19 May 2017.

De Stijl Movement, Artists And Major Works. The Art Story. N.p., 2017. Web. 19 May 2017.

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