Theo van Doesburg — Statement Trio | Colourblock Compositions | De Stijl Art Print

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Theo van Doesburg — Statement Trio | Colourblock Compositions | De Stijl Art PrintTheo van Doesburg (18831931) was the founder and driving force of De Stijl the Dutch avant garde movement that sought to reduce painting, architecture, and design to their fundamental elements: the right angle, the primary colour, and the flat plane. His colourblock compositions rigorous, primary, geometrically absolute are the clearest expressions of De Stijl's utopian visual programme. Van Doesburg was a writer, architect, designer, and polemicist

and beloved figure in Japanese Zen cultural history

The Mughal imperial atelier employed dozens of named master artists — Basawan

symbolic depth

Del Marle brought Neo-Plastic principles to architectural colour design and applied arts

Takeda Mokurai (武田黙雷

His Moorish portraits — studies of individual men and women in their domestic and religious environments — have a directness and psychological depth that sets them apart from the fantasy Orientalism of his Parisian contemporaries

giving them a warmth and particularity that distinguishes Kosler from many of his contemporaries in the genre

Quranic manuscripts from the Abbasid

he was among the first American artists to engage seriously with Cubism and abstraction

and a cultivated aesthetic sensibility

and formally achieved serenity

drawing on Expressionism

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