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History Of Modern Design Term Paper

¶ … De Stijl (The Style) movement of was founded in 1917 by a group of young Dutch architects, among whom the most important are Piet Mondrian, Theo Van Doesburg, and Bart Van Der Leck. In the magazine they founded ( De Stijl), they first displayed their paintings, sculpture, and architectural design. They were eager that their new aesthetic conceptions should embrace everything from city panning to applied arts and philosophy. The main ideas around which they worked (based closely on Mondrian's theory of Neo-Plasticism) highlighted simplicity of line, form and color. Straight lines, primarly colors, and reduced forms were emphasized. Art was viewed as a collective project, and therefore the...

It will be seen that the De Stijl ideas had a major influencce on the Bauhaus style in Germany.
While Constructivism cannot be considered as a specifc movement, it did have associated ramifications in painting, archeticture, applied arts and sculpture. When the Russian Vladimir Tatlin visited Picasso and Braque in Paris (1913), he adopted their aesthetic outlook into his sculpture: making works without a particular subject or narrative, but rather letting the work sit in its constructed, spatial, simplicity. Its main principle is this non-representational quality, along with…

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Raizman, David. History of Modern Design . New Jersey: Prentice Hall Inc., 2004.
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