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de stijl
Stairs inspired by Mondrian’s works, Lahey, Netherlands
What is being modern is about? This word, calls us to keep pace with today in its meaning, became the order of business by some people in the each period of art which evolved as of today. It was not the first time, two completely foreign soul, Van Doesburg and Mondrian, meeting in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and became one in the basis of an idea, to desire to have people pursue their agendas. Each artist wants to present the world in their work, not as it is, but as it should be. Maybe most of the times, when the first-thought idea is the same, but then the outcome is different. That is how De Stijl movement be formed. Whilst World War One alters the humanity, and turn the pain they are having into horror, death; it was not to be expected that the artists would stay exactly the same.
Van Doesburg and Mondrian, as normal individuals, defined life as lines who are following each other in a flat plane and they argued that only black and white existed.1 They started a newspaper, during the first years of the war, to propagate themselves, most importantly their ideas.2 Of course this movement did not stay only on the canvas paintins. The ideas on the works of Mondrian, in which he used three main colors; red, blue and yellow and three main values; black, gray and white were then jumped into the architecture.3 Gerrit Rietveld, who could prove to Van Doesburg that the machines could produce pieces of artworks, was an architect who believed in the basics of the movement. As he spent his youth in his father’s wood atelier, he designed Red and Blue Chair, which then became one of the key figures of De Stijl and SchrÜder House.4
