1)Name?

Theo Van Doesburg.

2)Years Active?
1908 (First Exhibition) onwards
1916 Dancer
1930 Simultaneous Counter-Composition
1935 died

3) Where did they study?

He did not study at proper school.He considered himself to be a
modern painter, at that time, although his early work is in line with the
Amsterdam Impressionists and is influenced by Vincent van Gogh.He is
best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl

4) What was their Inspiration?

He looks back at his life as a painter from 1903–1913. It made him
realize there was a higher, more spiritual level in painting that originates
from the mind rather than from everyday life, and that abstraction is the
only logical outcome of this.
His ideal in painting:A complete abstraction of reality

5)Pick 2-5 works

Girl with Ranunculus, Oil on canvas, 1914, Centraal Museum, Utrecht

Composition in Gray (Rag-time), 1919, Oil on canvas, 196.5 cm × 59.1 cm (77.4 in
× 23.3 in), The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Peggy Guggenheim Collection,
Venice, 1976

Rhythm of a Russian Dance

Dancer

Describe what you like and dont like

I like about some of his art as some of his art work, using so much of
colourful geometric elements playing with spaces