Isamu Noguchi blended two materials to create his innovative coffee table, the two materials he used were steel and wood. He produced more than 20 abstractions in Paris all made of wood, steel, and sheet metal.

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Piet Mondrian

Isamu Noguchi strove to create harmony between opposing concepts in his designs.

De Stijl, meaning ‘Style’ was a modern art movement developed in the Netherlands in the early twentieth century. Encompassing painting, architecture and design, de Stijl was founded by Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesberg in 1917 based upon strict ideals of vertical and horizontal geometry.

2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of a Dutch art movement that has had a worldwide impact: De Stijl. Right up to the present day, De Stijl has influenced art, architecture, and product design. But the impact of De Stijl is particularly apparent in contemporary design—more specifically, in digital design.

Originally a publication, De Stijl was founded in 1917 by two pioneers of abstract art, Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg. De Stijl means style in Dutch.

From the Dutch ‘de nieuwe beelding’, neo-plasticism basically means new art (painting and sculpture are plastic arts). The new plastic idea cannot therefore, take the form of a natural or concrete representation – this new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour.

neoplasticism. / (ˌniːəʊˈplæstɪˌsɪzəm) / noun. the style of abstract painting evolved by Mondrian and the Dutch de Stijl movement, characterized by the use of horizontal and vertical lines and planes and by black, white, grey, and primary colours.

Best abstract artists

1. Vasily Kandinsky (1866–1944)
2. Piet Mondrian (1872–1944)
3. Kazimir Malevich (1878–1935)
4. Lyubov Popova (1889–1924)
5. Mark Rothko (1903-1966)
6. Jackson Pollock (1912–1956)
7. Agnes Martin (1912–2004)
8. Joan Mitchell (1925–1992)

The difference between Expressionism and Abstract art is that expressionistic art does not necessarily abandon all figural or representational elements, although it can use elements of abstraction, or “weak abstraction,” to create an emotional effect.

Abstract expressionism preceded Tachisme, Color Field painting, Lyrical Abstraction, Fluxus, Pop Art, Minimalism, Postminimalism, Neo-expressionism, and the other movements of the sixties and seventies and it influenced all those later movements that evolved.

Abstract Expressionism They changed the nature of painting with their large, abstract canvases, energetic and gestural lines, and new artistic processes. With these unconventional ways of painting, the Abstract Expressionists sought new forms of self-expression and personal freedom in their work.