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Neoplasticism was a Dutch abstract movement founded
by Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg. Neoplasticism (the
new plastic art or Nieuwe Beelding in Dutch) was a movement
in both painting and sculpture that asserted only the absolutes
in life were important.
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Piet
Mondrian
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Neoplasticism sought to reduce art to horizontal and vertical
lines and the primary colors (red, blue and yellow) plus black,
white and gray. The intent of Neoplasticism was to remove
any hint of realism or artistic emotion from the art piece.
The Neoplasticism movement ran from 1910 to roughly 1940.
In 1931, van Doesburg founded a new movement called "Abstraction-Creation",
which was the beginning of the end for Neoplasticism. The
collective work of Neoplasticism was known at the time as
De Stijl (The Style).
Mondrian was influenced by cubism, Fauvism and Pointillism
but decided to forgo these and develop his own style. Bart
van der Leck, Georges Vantongerloo, Jean Gorin and Gerrit
Rietveld also joined Mondrian and van Doesburg in their movement,
which gave coherent and momentum to the movement.
Neoplasticism was supposed to represent spiritual harmony
and order. Mondrian published a manifesto titled Neo-Plasticism
in 1920 and van Doesburg published a journal named De
Stijl from 1917 to 1928 outlining the movement in
detail.
Besides painting and sculpture, Neoplasticism influenced
the Bauhaus style as well as the International style in architecture
as well as clothing and interior design.
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