Van Doesburg
Piet Mondrian? Yeah I know him. Van-who?
Theo van Doesburg sometimes known as Mr Diagonal has a new exhibition in his name recently open up at the Tate Modern. He worked within the disciplines of art, design,text. Van Doesburg proclaimed that diagnoals are better than horizontals and verticals which he saw as classicising and old fasionshed he along with his (slightly more) famous countryman, Piet Mondrian fathered a movement and magazine called De Stijl (“The Style”). A group of people that were focussed about the inner and outer workings of abstract geometry.
The exhibition holds a number of abstract paintings but what Recuperate found interesting were the original screen-printed magazines and posters with Van Doesburg’s typography, beautifully designed letter-pressed stationary, for De Stijl.
There’s also a massive collection of others work in the avant-garde movement such as Jean Arp, Constantin Brancusi, László Moholy-Nagy, Piet Mondrian, Francis Picabia, Gerrit Rietveld, Kurt Schwitters and Sophie Taeuber.
Tate Modern Website - Van Doesburg
