DSST Art of the Western World Exam Prep

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What art style, popular in the early twentieth-century, is typified by works such as Mondrian's Composition in Black and White and Red and Rietveld's Schröder House?

  1. DeStijl
  2. Suprematism
  3. Bauhaus
  4. Constructivism
Explanation

Answer - A - DeStijl, popular in the early twentieth-century, is typified by works such as Mondrian's Composition in Black and White and Red and Rietveld's Schröder House.

Key Takeaway: DeStijl is a term for an artistic movement that reached its height in the first quarter of the twentieth century. DeStijl is symbolized by the Dutch painter Mondrian, and largely featured very abstract paintings with a white background and black lines to shape the rectangular spaces. In DeStijl, only black, red, yellow, and blue are used and lines are forbidden to be diagonal.

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