De Stijl is not art, its designing with style

De Stijl is the Dutch phrase for "the style," and is commonly associated with neoplasticism. The De Stijl movement was part of an era at the beginning of the 20th century, many artists all over Europe star looking to redefine art, as always try to innovate themselves and change. This movement began in Netherlands in 1917, like other art movements they responded to the changes in society and the economy at this time and also is based on the ideas of a group of artists, founded by Theo van Doesburg and composed of artists from disciplines ranging from architecture to painting. With the beginning of the machine age and World War I all the basic human values began to change. This was an impulse for the artists to find a new, more critical role and direct impact in society. In particular, they wanted a break with the traditional art and the bequest of the past; they wanted to modernize themselves to the era. Europe's artists were prepared for even the most radical approaches. constructivism and futurism produced many new design ideas. De Stijl architecture in combination with the arts and crafts movement developed new ways of creating places and spaces. The movement was mainly about creating geometric and unique buildings. The unique effect that creates is a sense of a larger space and brighter lit space in the buildings. The architects that helped to create this effect and got this movement to be acknowledge were Gerrit Rietveld, Robert vant Hoff and J.J.P. Oud. The movement "De Stijl" proved to be a shift to a new architecture, to be a modern architecture. The new architecture will rest mainly on the calculation and simplicity. The special composition, projected in two dimensions by a horizontal section can be replaced by an exact calculation of the construction. The modern architect will be delete the old one, not just the monotonous repetition of the classical types, but also destroys the equality. Instead of this,

require equivalence to maintain the balance between these unequal parts and this old architecture will not be capable of distinguish between front and back, left or right side. This will be a very rich development in space and change. As to the construction materials used in the modern architects, iron, concrete, glass and other materials that are not the old natural ones, they use the ones produced by the modern technology. In all environments, executions and projects that were made and have been made, this architecture is developed for specific elements, such as, functionality, light, symmetry, mass, space, materials, colors, etc.

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