De Stijl

Following World War 1, artists were turning away from traditional forms. Many new abstract ideas came into play. One of the important trends in the 20th century was to increase the parallels between art and design. In the early 1920 a group of artists that were inspired from the DADA movement, formed the movement De Stijl. The most thing for this movement were the ideas. the main ideas came from the influence of the DADA movement.


Red and Blue Chair designed byGerrit Rietveld in 1917


Composition with Yellow, Blue, and Red, 1937–42, Piet Mondrian. Oil on canvas; 72.5 x 69 cm. London, Tate Gallery.

Bibliography:

• De Stijl. 2013. De Stijl. [ONLINE] Available at:http://char.txa.cornell.edu/art/decart/destijl/decstijl.htm. [Accessed 16 May 2013].