de Stijl

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de Stijl (d

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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]

(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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Though the curator, Barbara Bloemink, looks to Dadaism, De Stijl and Russian Constructivism as antecedents, one need only recall Picasso's revolutionary 1912 constructivist Guitar sculpture or David Smith's 1950s Agricola sculptures based on farm implements to recognize the interaction between fantasy and function.

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