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De Stijl: History of Architecture - 3

De Stijl was a Dutch art movement founded in 1917 that advocated pure abstraction and universality using only basic geometric forms, primary colors, black and white. Key principles included reducing compositions to horizontal and vertical lines and ignoring natural colors and forms. Influenced by Mondrian, De Stijl artists limited their palette to primary colors and used only squares and rectangles. Important works included the Red and Blue Chair by Gerrit Rietveld and the redecoration of the Aubette building in Strasbourg by De Stijl artists using their signature geometric style.

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De Stijl: History of Architecture - 3

De Stijl was a Dutch art movement founded in 1917 that advocated pure abstraction and universality using only basic geometric forms, primary colors, black and white. Key principles included reducing compositions to horizontal and vertical lines and ignoring natural colors and forms. Influenced by Mondrian, De Stijl artists limited their palette to primary colors and used only squares and rectangles. Important works included the Red and Blue Chair by Gerrit Rietveld and the redecoration of the Aubette building in Strasbourg by De Stijl artists using their signature geometric style.

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DE STIJL

HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE -3
DE STIJL
`"The Style", also known as Neoplasticism, was a Dutch art
movement founded in 1917 in Leiden. De Stijl consisted of
artists and architects.In a narrower sense, the term De Stijl is
used to refer to a body of work from 1917 to 1931
Founded in the Netherlands. Proponents of De Stijl advocated
pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the
essentials of form and colour; they simplified visual
compositions to vertical and horizontal, using
only black, white and primary colors.
De Stijl is also the name of a journal that was published by the
Dutch painter, designer, writer, and critic 
PRINCIPLES AND INFLUENCE
Mondrian sets forth the delimitations of Neoplasticism in his essay "Neo-
Plasticism in Pictorial Art". He writes, "this new plastic idea will ignore the
particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour.
On the contrary, it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and
colour, that is to say, in the straight line and the clearly defined primary
colour".
 With these constraints, his art allows only primary colours and non-
colours, only squares and rectangles, only straight and horizontal or vertical
lines. The De Stijl movement posited the fundamental principle of the
geometry of the straight line, the square, and the rectangle, combined with
a strong asymmetricality; the predominant use of pure primary colors with
black and white; and the relationship between positive and negative
elements in an arrangement of non-objective forms and lines
The name De Stijl is supposedly derived from Gottfried Semper's Der Stil in
den technischen und tektonischen Künsten oder Praktische Ästhetik (1861–3)
 which Curl suggests was mistakenly believed to advocate materialism
and functionalism. The "plastic vision" of De De Stijl proposed ultimate
simplicity and abstraction, both in architecture and painting, by using only
straight horizontal and vertical lines and rectangular forms.
 their formal vocabulary was limited to the primary colours, red, yellow,
and blue, and the three primary values, black, white, and grey. The works
avoided symmetry and attained aesthetic balance by the use of opposition.
 This element of the movement embodies the second meaning of stijl: "a
post, jamb or support"; this is best exemplified by the construction of
crossing joints, most commonly seen in carpentry. Stijl artists, also called
Neo-Plasticism,
EXAMPLES
From the flurry of new art movements that followed
the Impressionist revolutionary new perception of
painting, Cubism arose in the early 20th century as an
important and influential new direction. In
the Netherlands, too, there was interest in this "new art".
EXAMPLE:
Aubette is a historical building
on Place Kléberin Strasbourg,
France. It was built by Jacques-
François Blondel in 1765–1772.
Between 1926 and 1928 it was
redecorated by Sophie Taeuber-
Arp, Jean Arp and De Stijl artist
Theo van Doesburg. The work of
the three artists had been called
"the Sistine Chapel of abstract art”.
THE RED AND BLUE CHAIR
 The Red and Blue Chair is a chair designed in 1917 by Gerrit Rietveld.
It represents one of the first explorations by the De Stijl art movement
in three dimensions.
•The Museum of Modern Art, which houses the chair
in its permanent collection, a gift from Philip Johnson,
states that the red, blue, and yellow colors were added
around 1923.A version of the chair also resides at the
High Museum of Art, Atlanta.It features several
Rietveld joints.
•The Red and Blue Chair was reported to be on loan to
the Delft University of Technology Faculty of
Architecture as part of an exhibition. On May 13, 2008,
a fire destroyed the entire building, but the Red and
Blue Chair was saved by firefighters.A version of the
chair was sold by Christies in 2011 for €10,625.
Rietveld Schröder House
The Rietveld Schröder House (also known as
the Schröder House) in Utrecht (Prins
Hendriklaan 50) was built in 1924 by Dutch
architect Gerrit Rietveld for Mrs. Truus
Schröder-Schräder and her three children.
THANK YOU
BY:
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GAYATHIRI
RAPHAEL ZITA
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