Rietveld, Schroder House, Utrecht, 1925 Almost looks like a Mondrian painting in three dimensions; reduces form and abandons faux traditional elements (such as columns) In the Netherlands during the wake of World War I, this is a slightly socialist approach to art. By creating compositions out of simple elements, the units can be cheaply manufactured and everyone can have something aesthetically pleasing

Rietveld, Schroder House, Utrecht, 1925

  • Almost looks like a Mondrian painting in three dimensions; reduces form and abandons faux traditional elements (such as columns)
  • In the Netherlands during the wake of World War I, this is a slightly socialist approach to art. By creating compositions out of simple elements, the units can be cheaply manufactured and everyone can have something aesthetically pleasing
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artwhat.

during my first ever survey of western art class, my professor explained the difference between historians and art historians. historians, she said, were interested in old things. art historians, on the other hand, were interested in old things of quality. you don't hang garbage up on the walls of a museum; it has to be substantial and it has to mean something. so here you go; old things, made mostly by dudes long dead, of debatable degrees of quality but always with a constant level of importance. think of this as a deck of flash cards... sans the whole cards part.

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