Thursday, October 01, 2009

Theo van Doesburg

Born in the Netherlands in 1883 was one of the leader of De Stijl an art movement searching for harmony and equilibrium by getting rid of all unneccessary elements in a painting. Their most famous painter was Piet Mondrian. The thing I find most interesting is that in around 1920, Doesburg introduced an extra element to his paintings: the diagonal (which for a De Stijl purist should have only contained square and lines) . It seems that Mondrian considered this a heresy and left De Stijl (probably slamming the door).


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