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designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1917]]
For the album by The White Stripes, see De Stijl . De Stijl (in English
generally , after style; from the Dutch for "the style" ? ), also known as
neoplasticism, was a Dutch artistic movement, founded in 1917. In a
narrower sense, the term De Stijl is used to refer to a body of work
created by a group of Dutch artists, from 1917 to 1931.De Stijl is also the
name of a journal which was published by the painter and critic Theo van
Doesburg, propagating the group's theories. Next to Van Doesburg, the
group's principal members were the painters Piet Mondrian and Bart van der
Leck, and the architects Gerrit Rietveld and J.J.P. Oud. The artistic
philosophy that formed a basis for the group's work is known as
neoplasticism ? the new plastic art (or Nieuwe Beelding in Dutch).
Proponents of De
