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| | De Stijl -- Excerpt from "Great Paintings of the Western World" (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | At the other end of Europe, in Holland, a group of artists banded together around 1917 to found a magazine and a group called de Stijl (The Style), whose aims were to provide a comprehensive visual system for all aspects of society, thus blurring boundaries and uniting the ostensibly disparate elements of life. |
 | | Formally, de Stijl artists rejected all but the most basic colors--yellow, red, blue, white, fl--and reduced their art to its most basic, predominantly vertical and horizontal, forms. |
 | | He had embraced Cubism, then pushed to a non-objective art that was all his own; like Malevich's, his art is one of balance through opposition, and once he found his signature style, he explored this theme over and over again during the course of his life. |
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