Why De Dtijl s Style - 1371 Words

Why De Dtijl â€Å"The Style†? De Stijl Translated from Dutch to English literally means â€Å"The Style† but why? Could it have been a simple name for simple design using predominantly primary colours and basic shapes? Or could it have been an ambition from the creator of De Stijl to make it the style for everyone and everything in? Hopefully I can give you enough information for you to decide for yourself. So before we start let’s look more into the words De Stijl, We know that together they mean â€Å"the Style† but if we isolate the words and look closer at what they mean and what impact they could have on the overall name of the movement, â€Å"De† literal translation is â€Å"the†. why is â€Å"the† needed?, Why couldn’t it just be called Stijl or â€Å"style† could†¦show more content†¦Let’s start now with how the movement began and who was involved at the start. De Stijl was a Magazine organised by Theo Van Doesburgh, different to past movements centred round a magazine De stijl was a collective effort from different types of architect’s designers and artists, who all shared a collective goal of creating a universal Art. Theo van Doesburgh launched the magazine in 1917 in Leiden in the south of Holland where he moved to in 1916 to be with his sweetheart. while Van Doesburgh was living in Leiden he was intro duced to the work of Piet Mondrian and van der leck who hust happened to stumble on the same principle of art at the same time as one another, which is reminiscent of the likeness between Barque and Picasso in early modernism, which inspired him change his style of painting where he would usualy look for visual reality in his work, to start â€Å"further image† his work so his work started to become more basic shapes and lines to eventually lines and rectangles and this is where the typical De Stijl style was created. Van doesburgh did not feel like he was different to the other painters he was working with instead he thought that he was working besides them to contribute to creating a new style. Another painter Vilmos Huszar, Born in 1884 was also greatly influential for de stijl. Vilmos Huszar Gained his inspiration from glass painting and Graphics. And so the four artists were all heading in the