This week we looked at revolution and the Bauhaus including the different movements, designers and their styles.
De Stijl was a modern art movement which developed in the Netherlands in the early twentyish century. Artists of the De Stijl movement used primary abstract and ****universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and color (Very simplistic). De Stijl was a response to the war.
Piet Mondrian was one of the founders of De Stijl. Mondrian is a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the best artists of the 20th century. Mondrian was inspired by cubist art which he focused on horizontal and vertical lines which used primary colours.
Looking at his artwork it is very simple it is just lines with some colour in it. Looking at his artwork it may inspire more design ideas for week 1’s project ‘point line plane’ in UXD 101.
Theo Van Doesburg was the second founder of De Stijl which he was also a Dutch artist. Doesburgs art style was focused on geometric abstractions of subjects from nature which I thought was really interesting. One example we looked at was how Doesburg does a realistic sketch of a cow, broke it up into shapes then took them shapes and turned it into abstract art while still resembling the cow. Looking at these examples is really helping me think of creative ideas for my point, line plane task.
1917 Russian Revolution