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Which early 20th-century art movement, co-founded by Piet Mondrian in 1917, emphasized geometric abstraction using only primary colors plus black and white?
Answer
De Stijl
De Stijl, Dutch for 'The Style,' was a movement and magazine founded in the Netherlands in 1917 that advocated pure abstraction and universal geometric forms.
💡 Did you know?
Mondrian spent years refining his grids; he would move the black lines mere millimeters and consider it a substantially different painting.
Other options people guess
- Bauhaus
- Futurism
- Constructivism
Topics
- abstract
- 20th-century
- netherlands
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