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De Stijl & Italian Futurism
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Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931) Painter, poet and art critic who established the De Stijl magazine, from which the Movement took it's name. The
magazine ran 1917-32. |
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Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) also spelled Piet Mondriaan One
of the main founders of the De Stijl Movement. He called his style Neo-Plasticism.
He was the long-term purist of the movement, although even he finally
broke the formula after moving to New York and developing a taste for
jazz. He went to the extreme of making paintings WITHOUT black lines
*gasp* such as the famous "Broadway Boogie-Woogie":
webexhibits.org/colorart/mondrian2.html
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J.J.P. (Pieter or Pietr) Oud (1890 -1963) Jacobus
Johannes Pieter Oud, architect and one of the founding members of the
De Stijl movement. He left the group due to philosophical differences
and went on to become one of Holland's premier Modernist architects. |
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Gerrit Rietveld (1888 1964) Furniture
designer Rietveld produced the famous Red & Blue Chair in 1918.
The De Stijl founders were so impressed by this piece that they invited
him to join them, and became the foundation for their distinctive designs. |
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Italian Futurism Futurism
may look a lot like other European Modernist Movements but there's a
darker side. The Manifestos on which the movement is based are often
violent, intense and anti-social. Exponents came from both extremes
of the political spectrum - fascists and revolutionary leftists.Google.com
image search for Futurism FT
Marinetti wrote the first Futurist Manifesto in 1909. Umberto
Boccioni was one of the prime artists of the Italian Futurist
movement. The
predominant form of Applied Art / Design undertaken by the Futurists
was architecture. Antonio Sant'Elia even
wrote a manifesto about it. My, those Futurists were a bunch of angry
young men. They mostly died in WWI, somewhat ironically killed by the
very machines, violence and anarchy they so glorified. |
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Another Futurist Architect was Nicolay Diulgheroff who designed the very Art-Deco looking Mazzotti House. Unfortunately, the best website featuring this house is in Italian. Considering that the house is in Italy, I guess that's no great surprise. www.tulliodalbisola.it/casa_mazzotti You can try a pretty bad automatic English translation. |
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Contextual factors to consider:
Some key technical innovations:
Meanwhile, in Fine Art:
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