Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of coulor and matter, but also, and chiefly, in the tempo of life and in the techniques related to the daily, mechanical functions of life; namely standing, walking, driving, to lying and sitting - in short, every action which determines the content of architecture.
While the expressive possibilities of Neoplasticism are limited to two dimensions (the plane), Elementarism realizes the possibility of plasticism in… - Theo Van Doesburg
While the expressive possibilities of Neoplasticism are limited to two dimensions (the plane), Elementarism realizes the possibility of plasticism in…
- Theo Van Doesburg
...every machine is the spiritualization of an organism. - Theo Van Doesburg
...every machine is the spiritualization of an organism.
For - to say a few words on technique - whereas the curved line was used predominantly for reasons of beauty, (Phidias, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rubens… - Theo Van Doesburg
For - to say a few words on technique - whereas the curved line was used predominantly for reasons of beauty, (Phidias, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rubens…
Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of coulor and matter, bu… - Theo Van Doesburg
Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of coulor and matter, bu…
The complete and definitive work of art is created beyond one's individuality... ...The universal transcends such a level. Mere spontaneity has never… - Theo Van Doesburg
The complete and definitive work of art is created beyond one's individuality... ...The universal transcends such a level. Mere spontaneity has never…
Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual. - Theo Van Doesburg
Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual.
To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free. - Theo Van Doesburg
To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free.
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface. - Theo Van Doesburg
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.
he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects perceived was all-important. - Theo Van Doesburg
he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects perceived was all-important.
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