Visko Bryers

1. Style: The style of De Stijl is very simple but has a very effective design and style. The grid like style has a certain aesthetics which make it stand out from other designers work. Design Era: De Stijl advocated pure abstraction by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour, they simplified visual compositions to the vertical and horizontal directions, and used only primary colours along with black and white. According to the Tate Gallery's online article on neoplasticism, Mondrian himself sets forth these delimitations in his essay "Neo-Plasticism in Pictorial Art". He wrote, "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". The article further summarizes that this art allows "only primary colours and non-colours, only squares and rectangles, only straight and horizontal or vertical line." Visko Bryers Philosify: In the early 1920's a group of architects and artists, influenced by some of the ideas of DaDa, formed a movement called de Stijl (Dutch for The Style). Theirs was a utopian philosophical approach to aesthetics, centered in a publication called de Stijl, which presented their ideas and designs. The founder of the publication and leader of the group was Theo van Doesburg, an architect. Other important participants were GerritRietveld and Piet Mondrian. Some of De Stijl’s specific work includes their famous grid like pattern which is only coloured white, red, yellow, black and blue. This is their signature design, it is what they are known for. De Stijl designs really stand out from other designers work thats why they became known and eventually put in the “history books.” These are some of De Stijl’s classic pieces of furniture with their iconic red, blue, yellow, white and black colour schemes.

2. Visko Bryers De Stijl proposed ultimate simplicity and abstraction, both in architecture and painting, by using only straight horizontal and vertical lines and rectangular forms. Furthermore, 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.In many of the group's three-dimensional works, vertical and horizontal lines are positioned in layers or planes that do not intersect, thereby allowing each element to exist independently and unobstructed by other elements. This feature can be found in the Rietveld Schroder House and the Red and Blue Chair.

3. Visko Bryers De Stijl had a large influence on society in the time span of 1917 to 1931. "The three principal colors are essentially yellow, blue, and red. They are the only colors existing ... Yellow is the movement of the ray (vertical) ... blue is he contrasting color to yellow (horizontal firmament) ... red is the mating of yellow and blue." - M. H. J. Schoenmaekers the meaning of this quote is telling people (society) that we don’t always need lots of eccentric colours to make things look cool, sometimes basic colours can make an object more appealing or modern which is essentially what the people from De Stijl were trying to achieve. Bibliography: http://www.theartstory.org/movement-de-stijl.htm http://www.arthistoryunstuffed.com/de-stijl/ www.google.com http://char.txa.cornell.edu/art/decart/destijl/decstijl.htm