#teamvandoesburg

PEO­PLE!

WAT IS YOUR DEAL with Piet Mon­dri­an (1872–1944)?

Why is his work the only part of De Sti­jl that any­one knows?
 

WE’RE PUTTING ON a Flomm event THIS SAT­UR­DAY cel­e­brat­ing 100 years of De Sti­jl.

“What the hell is that?”

An art move­ment from Hol­land.

“Hol­land? That’s a coun­try, right?”

YES. De Sti­jl changed the world.

“Nev­er heard of it. What’s it about?”

PRI­MA­RY COLOURS, rec­tan­gles, black lines …

**be­wil­dered looks**

Mon­dri­an. It’s all about Mon­dri­an.
 

 

Which Steve do you cred­it for Ap­ple? Jobs or Woz­ni­ak?

In­spired by the works of Kandin­sky, Mon­dri­an, and oth­ers, Theo van Does­burg (1883–1931) start­ed the move­ment known as De Sti­jl. Mon­dri­an had the con­cept but it was Van Does­burg who made it tru­ly Sti­jlish.

The two end­ed up not-speak­ing for a cou­ple of years over their artis­tic dif­fer­ences. Be­cause Theo van Does­burg was young and hip and Mon­dri­an was a fuck­ing chump ba­si­cal­ly.

Every­thing is rec­tan­gles. In the way mu­sic is made of notes and mea­sures, vi­su­al im­ages can too be bro­ken down into their most ba­sic el­e­ments of pri­ma­ry colour and lines. At its base, all shapes can be bro­ken down into rec­tan­gles, and all lines ei­ther go some kind of hor­i­zon­tal or ver­ti­cal. At least, that’s the con­cept.

Van Does­burg sort of ran with this, ex­cept he in­clud­ed di­ag­o­nals, be­cause it’s the fu­ture, man.

Get with it, Mon­dri­an. This isn’t your dad’s or­thog­o­nal. The new rec­tan­gles need move­ment! They need to stick it to the man. This guy gets it.

De Sti­jl may not have tak­en on its icon­ic style with­out Mon­dri­an, or maybe it would have, but I think we can all agree that Van Does­burg is the real life of the par­ty here.

He lit­er­al­ly took some bull­shit like rec­tan­gles and made us all be­lieve it was awe­some. And now it just ob­jec­tive­ly is. In fact, it is one of my fa­vorite things now.

Could some guy named Piet do that shit?

An­gles in min­i­mal­ism are here to stay. Go home, Piet.

#Team­Van­Does­burg

 
 
 

—bwargh von does­burg

Flom­mist Bwargh von Mod­nar is. Copy­right © 2017 Bwargh von Mod­nar. Pic­tured: Works and im­ages and items found around the in­ter­webs. Top foto com­pos­ite by mehal­lo.‬

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