What are the characteristics of de Stijl and how do Piet Mondrian's Composition with Yellow, Red, and Blue and Gerrit Rietveld's Schroder House embody the movement?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. The leader of the de Stijl movement, Piet Mondrian, sought the essence of universal beauty, eliminating representational elements because of their subjective associations and curves because of their sensual appeal.
2. In Composition with Yellow, Red, and Blue, Mondrian restricted his formal vocabulary to the three primary colors and three neutrals and horizontal and vertical lines in order to establish a "dynamic equilibrium" through the precise arrangement of color areas of different size, shape, and weight, asymmetry, and opposing linear directions.
3. In the design for Schroder House, Rietveld applied Mondrian's principle of dynamic equilibrium to the whole house.
4. The radically asymmetrical exterior is composed of interlocking gray and white planes of varying sizes, combined with horizontal and vertical accents in primary colors and black to create a home that suggested an elegant austerity, balance, and restraint.
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traits listed below are characteristic of the style of both Beethoven and the Romantic period, with the exception of:
a. intense, lyrical themes in slow movements b. new, experimental musical forms and genres c. startling orchestral effects d. strong dynamic contrasts e. pounding rhythms
Which foundation of wisdom expressed in the Yi Jing (Book of Changes) is also key to the ancient Egyptian worldview?
a. balance b. reincarnation c. revenge d. piety