Elementalism
The elementarism is in the 1920s in response to the Neo- created art movement of modernity . Its main representative was Theo van Doesburg , who published the "Manifesto of Elementarism" in 1926 in the Dutch art magazine " De Stijl " . Other representatives included César Domela and Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart .
Theo van Doesburg experimented with the simplification and deconstruction of forms and created with simple geometric means from 1923's Contra composition or Contra-Composition titled art . In contrast to Piet Mondrian, who defended the principle of an exclusively vertical-horizontal image structure, he used dynamic diagonals. These divergent views led to Mondrian's break with the artist group De Stijl .
For van Doesburg, the contra composition was the subject of his artistic work for years. Characteristic of this work are diagonal line and surface structures. Similar to Piet Mondrian, van Doesburg sought to increase the dynamic expression of an image. He believed that adding slanted lines would ease the tension between the horizontal and vertical forces. Unlike Mondrian, he was not concerned with area ratios, but with dealing with tension. The dynamic effect is achieved by dissolving the absolute equilibrium.
He also lives out the dynamic by not completing his theory, but proving it again and again in experiments in painting and architecture.
In 1930 his findings lead to concrete art .
