Whereas a curvilin ­ear and a rich decorative style was charac ­teristic for Art Nouveau, simple machine based aesthetics with sharp geometrical shapes were typical for Art Moderne. ... It was achieved by creating a counter world to reality, often without any referral to the shapes and colours in the real world. ... Art was to be based on rational thinking and mathematical/geometrical principles. ... Shapes or colours borrowed from nature were banned as nature was thought to be anti universal and marked by individuals. ... Still, I do like modern design with clear shapes as long as it ...

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Furniture was usually left in wood tones and different kind of woods or staining were used to obtain shades and contrasts.6 The Schroder House was based on the same principles as his furniture designs and De Stijl characteristics: reducing the elements by making them into basic geometric forms, the asymmetrical composition and the exclusive use of orthogonal (horizontal and vertical lines and planes) painted like the Mondrian's compositions of Red, Yellow and Blue paintings. ...

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Hemingway, Mondrian, and the New Deal: all of these are related in one way or another. They all deal with some of the greatest people in world history. Hemingway was, and still is, described as the greatest and most influential writer in history; Mondrian invented a lot of new artistic styles, such ...

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