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de Stijl
(redirected from Neo Plasticism)

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de Stijl  (d stl, stl)
n.
A school of art originating in the Netherlands in 1917 and characterized by the use of rectangular shapes and primary colors.
[Dutch : de, the + stijl, style.]
De Stijl [də staɪl]
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Movements) a group of artists and architects in the Netherlands in the 1920s, including Mondrian and van Doesburg, devoted to neoplasticism and then dada
[Dutch, literally: the style, title of this group's own magazine]
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Ader's sad and funny visual embodiments of the anxiety of influence, portrayed in pathetic pratfalls (Pitfall on the Way to a New Neo Plasticism, Westkapelle, Holland, 1971, for instance), draw out a similar theme from Ray's photographs of himself wedged against a wall by a wooden plank--one realizes the artist must have felt wedged in by the example of Richard Serra and his "prop" sculptures.
"The Last Picture Show": Walker Art Center, Minneapolis by Deitcher, David / Artforum International
 
 
 
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