Piet Mondrian & Theo van Doesburg

PIET MONDRIAN:


Piet house




THEO VAN DOESBURG:


Schroder House 1924


The artsits of the De Stijl group demanded objective clarity, a harmonious balance of elementary contracts, and rectangularity. Working with the stark contrast of intersecting black lines on a white backgroun and isolated field of colorr, Piet Mondrian achieved a subtle, perfect balance within a flat surface that nevertheless transcends its own boudaries. Georges Vantongerloo used mathematicazl equations in order to diminish the individual, arbitrary aspect of formal desig. Around 1930, he began to open the elongated sterreometric volumes of his sculptures to accommodate passages for space to flow through, thus creating plastic spatial structures.
These works are as impossible to grasp from a single avantage point as the De Stijl architectures composed of open and closed cubic volumes. Theo van doesburg and Cornelis Van Eestern, as well as Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, designed their projects and buildings with a rich, complex interior and exterior structure. They used surfaces, lines, and colors as vividly contrasting autonomous elements of design to generate numerous different levels of depth while incorporating surrounding space in a a wall relief composed of two-dimensional areas. RHH