Graphic history : May 2017

DE STIJL

This blog is for academic purposes in the partial fulfilment of ACHG 200 Assignment 1 at the Design Department, Pearson Institute of Higher Education.

De Stijl, Dutch for "The Style", also known as neoplasticism, was a Dutch avante garde founded in 1917 in Leiden. The De Stijl consisted of artists and architects. In a narrower sense, the term De Stijl is used to refer to a body of work from 1917 to 1931 founded in the Netherlands(Katheryn M, 1994). They simplified visual compositions to vertical and horizontal, using only black, white and primary colours.

HISTORY

De Stijl movement embraced an abstract, simplified aesthetic culture in basic visual elements such as geometric forms and primary colours. The reduced quality of De Stijl art was seen by its makers as a universal visual language that would better suit the modern era. Led by the painters Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian, De Stijl artists applied their style to a body of work in the fine arts(the Artstory,2016).

The members envisioned nothing less than the ideal fusion of form and function, a Utopia of Modern art, this making De Stijl ,in the eyes of the pioneers, the ultimate style. De Stijl artists turned their attention not only to fine art media such as painting and sculpture, but to all other art forms as well, including industrial design, typography, even literature and music(Tate, 2006).

The pioneers involved in De Stijl are:

Ilya Bolotowsky (1907–1981)

Burgoyne Diller (1906–1965)

Theo van Doesburg (1883–1931)

Cornelis van Eesteren (1897–1981)

Jean Gorin (1899–1981)

Robert van 't Hoff (1887–1979)

Vilmos Huszár (1884–1960)

Frederick John Kiesler (1890-1965)

Antony Kok (1882–1969)

Bart van der Leck (1876–1958)

Piet Mondrian (1872–1944)

Marlow Moss (1889–1958)

J. J. P. Oud (1890–1963)

Gerrit Rietveld (1888–1964)

Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948)

Georges Vantongerloo (1886–1965)

Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart

Jan Wils (1891–1972)

Historical Artwork


Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow by Piet Mondrian (WikiMedia, 2015)

This was one of the De Stijl Artwork titled Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow by Piet Mondrian one of the founders of the De Stijl movement made this artwork embodying the simple style of there Utopian idea of bringing elements to there simplest form and style.The primary colours inside the blocks as well as the straight lines and white blocks show harmony and order with in the art work.

Modern Artwork

(Vans,2010)

These Piet Mondrian inspired shoe designs made by Vans using the complete and ultimate style of De Stijl of Harmony and order also using the functionality of designing a useful item to be used by the viewer.

Conclusion

De Stijl has showed me to refer back to things in there original form and not to forget about originality and simplicity.

Sources

http://madamepickwickartblog.com/2010/08/mondrian-theosophically-painting-the-golden-calf/

"Piet Mondrian", Tate gallery, published in Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.532–3. Retrieved 18 December 2007.

http://www.theartstory.org/movement-de-stijl.htm

"De Stijl". Tate Glossary. The Tate. Retrieved 2006-07-31.

Linduff, David G. Wilkins, Bernard Schultz, Katheryn M. (1994). Art past, art present (2nd ed.). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall. p. 523. ISBN 0-13-062084-X.

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/d/de-stijl

http://emptyeasel.com/2007/10/23/the-de-stijl-art-movement-also-known-as-neo-plasticism/

Constructivism

This blog is for academic purposes in the partial fulfilment of ACHG 200 Assignment 1 at the Design Department, Pearson Institute of Higher Education.

Constructivism is a philosophical viewpoint about the nature of wisdom and knowledge. Specifically, it represents a political and belief stance between the Russian White Army and the Red Army (Jean Piaget, 1967). It evolved just as the Bolsheviks came to power in the October Revolution of 1917, and was a lightning rod for the hopes and ideas of many of the most advanced Russian artists who supported the revolution's goals (The Artstory, 2017).

HISTORY

Earlier educational philosophies did not place much value on what would become constructivist ideas; children's play and exploration was seen as aimless and of little importance. (Jean Piaget, 1967)

The views of Constructivism were more focused on human development in the context of the social world are favoured and include the sociocultural or socio-historical perspective of Lev Vygotsky and the perspectives of Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger (Lave, 1991).

The concept of constructivism has influenced a number of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, education and the history of science (Eddy, 2004).

"The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognisably form of anything which is already finished, already made, already existing in the world - it is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people." El Lissitzky

Writers who influenced constructivism include:

John Dewey (1859–1952)

Maria Montessori (1870–1952)

Władysław Strzemiński (1893–1952)

Jean Piaget (1896–1980)

Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934)

Heinz von Foerster (1911–2002)

George Kelly (1905–1967)

Jerome Bruner (1915–2016)

Herbert Simon (1916–2001)

Paul Watzlawick (1921–2007)

Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917–2010)

Edgar Morin (1921–)

Humberto Maturana (1928–)