De Stijl

De Stijl is certainly a peculiar art movement. Even though, all Stijl compositions are made out of straight plain lines, basic geometric figures and only primary colours, I found them delightful and complex, and even somehow sentimental. Van Doesburg's,  van der Leck's and Mondrian's paintings are all similar and recognizably part of the Stijl style, and they all show us how the most simple elements can sometimes create the most sublime and touching works of art.

De Stijl sculptures by Vantongerloo are basically Van Doesburg's,  van der Leck's and Mondrian's paintings in 3D. One could easily think that De Stijl sculpture is easy to do, but I can tell there's a lot of maths and engineering in Vantongerloo's pieces. (I don't understand why most people -at least here in Mexico- think that maths and engineering have nothing to do with art... ha!). Nevertheless  in spite of the level of engineering of some De Stijl designs, sometimes they are rather beautiful than useful -the chair designs, for example, are amazing, yet useless for practical purposes)