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Movement

De Stijl

A Dutch movement founded in Leiden in 1917 around the magazine De Stijl (The Style), led by Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian. They sought a universal harmony through the most basic elements: straight horizontal and vertical lines, rectangles, the three primary colours red, yellow and blue, and black, white and grey. Mondrian called it Neo-Plasticism; his grids of black lines enclosing coloured blocks became one of the most recognisable images of modern art. Bart van der Leck, Vilmos Huszár and Georges Vantongerloo painted and sculpted in the same spirit, and Gerrit Rietveld built it into furniture and houses. Van Doesburg's later diagonals caused a split with Mondrian.

How to tell it apart: only right angles, black lines and blocks of primary colour on white; Suprematism allows free-floating shapes at any angle.

168 works in the quiz. Play a round on De Stijl.

Artists

Piet Mondrian · Jean Arp · Theo van Doesburg · Gino Severini · Bart van der Leck · Georges Vantongerloo · Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart

Best-known works

• “Broadway Boogie Woogie” — Piet Mondrian, 1942
• “Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow” — Piet Mondrian, 1930
• “Victory Boogie Woogie” — Piet Mondrian, 1942
• “New York City” — Piet Mondrian, 1942
• “Composition with Color Planes and Gray Lines” — Piet Mondrian, 1916
• “Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Grey and Blue” — Piet Mondrian, 1921
• “Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue” — Piet Mondrian, 1937
• “Composition in line, second state” — Piet Mondrian, 1916
• “Composition A: Composition with Black, Red, Gray, Yellow, and Blue” — Piet Mondrian, 1920
• “Composition with Grid 1” — Piet Mondrian, 1918
• “New York City I” — Piet Mondrian, 1941
• “Composition with yellow lines” — Piet Mondrian, 1933
• “Composition with red, yellow, and blue” — Piet Mondrian, 1927
• “Composition in red, blue and white II” — Piet Mondrian, 1937
• “Tableau I” — Piet Mondrian, 1921
• “Card Players” — Theo van Doesburg, 1916
• “Composition IX” — Theo van Doesburg, 1917
• “Composition with Blue, Yellow, Red, Black, and Gray” — Piet Mondrian, 1922
• “Composition with Blue and Yellow” — Piet Mondrian, 1932
• “Stations of the Cross” — Gino Severini, 1947
• “Rastercompositie 9: dambordcompositie heldere kleuren” — Piet Mondrian, 1919
• “Composition in Color B” — Piet Mondrian, 1917
• “Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray” — Piet Mondrian, 1921
• “Farm near Duivendrecht” — Piet Mondrian, 1916
• “Composition (No. 1) Gray-Red” — Piet Mondrian, 1935
• “Composition with Color Planes 5” — Piet Mondrian, 1917
• “Trafalgar Square” — Piet Mondrian, 1939
• “Windmill” — Piet Mondrian, 1917
• “Farm Near Duivendrecht, in the Evening” — Piet Mondrian, 1916
• “Tableau No. IV; Lozenge Composition with Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow, and Black” — Piet Mondrian, 1924