It was in 1917 when the De Stijl movement occurred throughout until 1931. This movement called for simplicity, geometric, abstracted, clarity, harmony, and unity within the arts, whether it is in painting, architecture, and type. Theo Van Doesburg was a chief founder of the De Stijl magazine. The magazine featured works of many different Dutch artists who strived for the same abstraction and clarity in their art. They simplified their works to the point where they just utilized the essential forms and colors in hopes to “re-idealize and achieve equilibrium through out the world.” Black, white, blue, red, and yellow were about the only colors they used, and grids overcame organic forms completely, using only vertical or horizontal lines.
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