De

Stijl
A Presentation by-
Muskaan Rajput
Priyanshu Prajapati
Anas Saif
Aman Kashyap
De Stijl
•De Stijl, or The Style, is an art and
design movement founded in Holland
by painters and architects around
1917.

• The movement strives to express

universal concepts through
elimination, reduction, abstraction,
simplification, and a dynamic
asymmetrical balance of
rectangles, planes, verticals,
horizontals, the primary colours,
and black, white, and gray.

Definition
De Stijl •The De Stijl also known as
neoplasticism, was one of several
art and design movements that
responded to the chaotic trauma
of World War I with a “return to
order.”

•De Stijl stands out because its

aspirations were as social as they
were aesthetic.

De stijl typography

Definition
De Stijl •Designers formulate a new
language and vocabulary for
architecture.

•To do this, they take the

traditional house apart, analyze it
like an object, abstract it to
eliminate traditional references,
and then reassemble it in a new
way.

•The new form emphasizes the

cube. It is not a solid box, but
instead opens up from outside to
inside with solid and void
relationships established through
flat planes.

Definition
 De Stijl
•Flat roof, asymmetry, geometric
forms, white or gray walls with
details highlighted by primary
colors.

•Houses for individuals are the

most important.

•Compositions generally
emphasize the separation of
planes, the application of primary
colours, and the spatial
relationship of solids to voids.

Architectural characteristics
 De Stijl
•Rectangular shapes define the
geometric repetition of windows,
doors, and blocks of color.

•Window sizes vary on an

individual building from large to
small. They may be arranged in
patterns or one unit on a large wall.

•Flat roofs are typical, and

distinctly different from other
structures.

Architectural characteristics
De Stijl – artists
Theo van Doesburg
• Dutch artist.

• Founder and Leader of De

Stijl.

• Complete abstraction of
reality in his paintings.

• He was more flamboyant and

extravagant.

Composition VII- The Three Graces, 1917 • Split up with his colleague,
Piet Mondrian in 1924 due to
disagreements.

Theo van Doesburg

De Stijl – artists

Simultaneous Counter
Counter- Compositio
Composition 1929 n V, 1925.

Theo van Doesburg

De Stijl – artists

Piet Mondrian
• Dutch Painter.

• Important contributor to
De Stijl.

• An introvert by nature.

Composition with Grids: Checkerboard Composition

with Light Colors - 1919

Piet Mondrian
De Stijl – artists

Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow

Neo Plastisicm - 1930

Piet Mondrian
De Stijl – artists
Gerrit Rietveld
• Dutch furniture designer
and architect.

• One of the principal

members of De Stijl.

• Famous for his Red and

Blue chair design.

• The chair was designed

for the Rietveld Schroder
House which is a UNESCO
world heritage site.

Gerrit Rietveld
De Stijl – artists
•Originally designed in 1917-18
the red blue chair had a natural
wood finish (beech wood and
plywood construction).

•The original chair was

constructed of unstained beech
wood and was not painted until
the early 1920s.

•Was painted red and blue as the

connection of artist with the DE STIJL
movement.

Gerrit Rietveld
De Stijl around the world

Fashion Industry
De Stijl around the world
The fact of simplifying things to pure abstraction of
little squares is such a power full idea that even the
newest things of our days uses it as a main reference.
BQ CODE

WINDOWS LOGO
RUBIK CUBE

The example of Windows logo still preserve

the dichotomy between horizontal and vertical
lines and diagonal composition, which was a
relevant discussing issue in De Stijl
participants.

Technology
De Stijl around the world
•In the first color screens, pixel where as well
in three basic tones. In this case, green
substituted the yellow of De Stijl.

•The reduction to
the essential
form and color
culminates with
a tiny square
which forms
every single
picture: the pixel

Bart van Der Leck posters

Technology
 Efforts By:
Muskaan Rajput
Md. Anas Saif
Priyanshu Prajapati
Aman Kashyap