De Stijl (; ),
Dutch for "The 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. 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.