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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DE STIJL

Dutch, literally: the style, title of this group's own magazine.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DE STIJL

De Stijl  [də staɪl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DE STIJL

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De Stijl is a noun.
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WHAT DOES DE STIJL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

De Stijl

De Stijl

De Stijl, Dutch for "Style", also known as neoplasticism, was a Dutch artistic movement founded in 1917 in Amsterdam. The De Stijl consisted of artists and architects In a narrower sense, the term De Stijl is used to refer to a body of work from 1917 to 1931 founded in the Netherlands. De Stijl is also the name of a journal that was published by the Dutch painter, designer, writer, and critic Theo van Doesburg that served to propagate the group's theories. Next to van Doesburg, the group's principal members were the painters Piet Mondrian, Vilmos Huszár, and Bart van der Leck, and the architects Gerrit Rietveld, Robert van 't Hoff, and J. J. P. Oud. The artistic philosophy that formed a basis for the group's work is known as neoplasticism—the new plastic art. Proponents of De Stijl advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour; they simplified visual compositions to the vertical and horizontal directions, and used only primary colors along with black and white.

Definition of De Stijl in the English dictionary

The definition of De Stijl in the dictionary is a group of artists and architects in the Netherlands in the 1920s, including Mondrian and van Doesburg, devoted to neoplasticism and then dada.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DE STIJL


big-style
ˈbɪɡˌstaɪl
freestyle
ˈfriːˌstaɪl
geotextile
ˌdʒiːəʊˈtɛkstaɪl
hairstyle
ˈhɛəˌstaɪl
hostile
ˈhɒstaɪl
hypostyle
ˈhaɪpəʊˌstaɪl
lifestyle
ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl
metrostyle
ˈmɛtrəˌstaɪl
nonstyle
ˈnɒnˈstaɪl
old-style
ˈəʊldstaɪl
peristyle
ˈpɛrɪˌstaɪl
prostyle
ˈprəʊstaɪl
restyle
ˌriːˈstaɪl
sextile
ˈsɛkstaɪl
Stijl
staɪl
stile
staɪl
style
staɪl
substyle
ˈsʌbˌstaɪl
textile
ˈtɛkstaɪl
turnstile
ˈtɜːnˌstaɪl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DE STIJL

De La Warr
de Lesseps
de los Angeles
de luxe
De Mille
de Molina
De Morgan´s laws
De Niro
de novo
de profundis
De Quincey
de re
de rigueur
de Sica
De Soto
de trop
de Valera
de Valois
De Vries

Synonyms and antonyms of De Stijl in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «De Stijl» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

风格派
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

de Stijl
570 millions of speakers

English

De Stijl
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Translator English - Hindi

डी Stijl
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

دي ستيل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Де Стиль
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de Stijl
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ডি স্টিগল
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de Stijl
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De Stijl
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de Stijl
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Translator English - Japanese

デ·ステイル
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드 Stijl
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De Stijl
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de Stijl
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Translator English - Tamil

டி ஸ்டீல்
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Translator English - Marathi

डी स्टिझल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

De Stijl
70 millions of speakers

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de Stijl
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Translator English - Polish

de Stijl
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Translator English - Ukrainian

де Стиль
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Translator English - Romanian

de Stijl
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de Stijl
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de Stijl
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Translator English - Swedish

de Stijl
10 millions of speakers
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de Stijl
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of De Stijl

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DE STIJL»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DE STIJL»

Discover the use of De Stijl in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to De Stijl and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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De Stijl
De Stijl ("The Style") was the name given to the work of the architects, designers and artists associated with the magazine of the same title edited by Theo van Doesburg and founded in Holland in 1917.
Paul Overy, 1969
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De Stijl and Dutch Modernism
This book is the first to emphasize the local context of De Stijl and explore its relationship to the distinctive character of Dutch modernism.
Michael White, 2003
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Towards Universality: Le Corbusier, Mies and De Stijl
A thorough examination of the work and philosophical foundations of Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and De Stijl, considering how a study of one can illuminate the works of the others.
Richard Padovan, 2013
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De Stijl Continued: The Journal Structure (1958-1964) : an ...
Bibliogr. p. 447-466. Index
Jonneke Jobse, 2005
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The Story of De Stijl: Mondrian to Van Doesburg
In each case, the artists, architects and designers would seem to have had a common aspiration that they might combine together to forge a new cultural consensus and 'style' appropriate for the modern age.In The Story of De Stijl, which ...
Hans L. Janssen, Michael White, 2011
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The De Stijl Environment
The De Stijl Environment explores the group's approach to exterior and interior spaces and to furniture.
Nancy J. Troy, 1983
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Painting as Model
There are three ways of defining De Stijl, and all three are used simultaneously by Theo van Doesburg in his 1927 retrospective article on the movement:1 De Stijl as a journal, De Stijl as agroup of artists assembled around this publication, ...
Yve-Alain Bois, 1993
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Mondrian and De Stijl
Briefly looks at the career of the Dutch painter, discusses the De Stijl movement, and assesses its influence on art, architecture, and design
Serge Lemoine, 1987
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Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
DE STIJL WAS one of two movements in Holland whose architecture was derived in part, at least, from the work or ideas of Berlage. The other movement, Wendingen or the Amsterdam School, was the more indebted to his actual work, which it ...
Reyner Banham, 1980
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Avant-garde and Criticism
Between 1921 and 1923 he imported the ideas on film of Viking Eggeling and Hans Richter as a universal language of abstract images in De Stijl in order to develop his own dynamic idea of a New Plasticism. His dynamic idea, that he further ...
K. Beekman, Jan de Vries, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DE STIJL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term De Stijl is used in the context of the following news items.
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Travel: Utrecht, The Netherlands
... UNESCO Heritage site house which was designed according to the principles and colour co-ordination of “de Stijl” – think Mondrian painting. «Scotsman, Jul 15»
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The Tour de France: The Art of Le Grand Départ
This UNESCO World Heritage Site embodies the colors and principles of the famous Dutch art movement De Stijl, whose most notable ... «ArtSlant, Jul 15»
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Utrecht and the Tour de France's Grand Départ: Hooked on pedal …
... Rietveld and live-in interior design enthusiast Truus Schröder-Schräder, is World Heritage-listed as a prime piece of De Stijl architecture. «The Independent, Jul 15»
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A New Renaissance–We'll Have to Invent One–A New Renaissance …
... a philosophy of stagnation and the retrograde has taken over philosophy and architecture–which appears to be content to imitate De Stijl and ... «seattlepi.com, Jul 15»
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Peter Saville: “I never had to answer to anyone”
... so I began to make the analogy with early modernism – Malevich's Black Square, Constructivism, Modernism in Germany, De Stijl in Holland, ... «Kashmir Images, Jun 15»
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Travel tips: Utrecht – the laidback alternative to Amsterdam, plus …
Design aficionados should check out the Rietveld Schröder House, the modernist house built by Gerrit Rietveld, a luminary of the De Stijl ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
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Farmers Only: Jesse and the Rippers
Jonathan "De Stijl" Martjin and Ed "Norm" Charlton both went 2-4 with a double and a triple. Jacob Constante gets the start as the Mustangs ... «Red Reporter, Jun 15»
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Contrasti e citazioni nel ristorante londinese di Clément Blanchet
... che a loro volta si ispiravano alle tecniche di rappresentazione del primo modernismo (Bauhaus, De Stijl, il costruttivismo sovietico): Blanchet ... «Abitare, Jun 15»
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Thought Miffy was a cute kids' bunny? At 60, it seems, she's a …
Bruna's thick black lines and blocks of flat colour are also, often, compared to the De Stijl school, epitomised by Mondrian and Vilmos Huszar, ... «The Independent, Jun 15»
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This Week in 1999 + 2007: The White Stripes Release Their First …
Of course, by then, the pair had divorced and the White Stripes had become a full-on cultural phenomenon after releasing 2000′s De Stijl (a ... «Diffuser.fm, Jun 15»

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