"De Stijl" redirects here. For the 2000indie rock album by The White Stripes, see De Stijl (album). De Stijl (in English generally pronounced (IPA) after style; from the Dutch for "the style" – Dutch pronunciation: IPA ), also known as neoplasticism, was a Dutch artistic movement, founded in 1917. In a narrower sense, the term De Stijl is used to refer to a body of work created by a group of Dutch artists, from 1917 to 1931. De Stijl is also the name of a journal which was published by the painter and critic Theo van Doesburg, propagating the group's theories. Next to Van Doesburg, the group's principal members were the painters Piet Mondrian and Bart van der Leck, and the architects Gerrit Rietveld and J.J.P. Oud. The artistic philosophy that formed a basis for the group's work is known as neoplasticism — the new plastic art (or Nieuwe Beelding in Dutch).
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1917 - 1931 Netherlands - dutch artist group De Stijl - favoring pure abstract art, reduced to geometric shapes and primary colors - influence on bauhaus and constructivism - compare purism