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Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde
Opens: 04/02/2010 Closes: 16/05/2010
Tate Modern, London
Spearheading an artistic movement that provided a counterpart to the Bauhaus, extrovert Dutchman Van Doesburg was propelled around Europe by his belief in the diagonal line and the primary palette. Work by a multitude of his associates, including Mondrian and Moholy-Nagy, accompanies this collection of masterful geometric painting, architecture and design.
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Financial Times“Van Doesburg is engrossing and poignant...” De Stijl’s impact on 20th-century art is profound and established – American abstraction and minimalism are unimaginable without it. What this show excavates is the lesser-known story of the movement’s role in 1920s Europe...
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Time Out“A broad and ambitious show...” The great diversity of artists on show is powerful testimony to Van Doesburg’s tireless organising energies and to the wide diffusion of his message…
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this is london“Challenging is the word for it...” I found this a fascinating exhibition. With some 360 unnumbered exhibits, it is an exhaustive and exhausting introduction to one of the most coldly inhuman and least comfortable of 20th-century movement...
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The Times“The visitor is adrift in an art-history warehouse...” There will be few rewards for those hoping to stand in front of famous art works. But, as an overview of the development and the dissemination of an idea it is a clearly instructive, widely representative and impressively broad in its reach...
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The Telegraph“De Stijl's incessant zest for order ends up stifling...” Why did I leave feeling a little cold? The answer lies in the nature of the aesthetic that van Doesburg championed. De Stijl is so controlled and rigorous that it can feel stern and austere...
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Guardian“This fascinating show is perhaps more fun than it ought to be...” One can walk through admiring here a sideboard by Gerrit Rietveld, pausing gratefully over a Mondrian with an empty grey centre, laughing at the words "merde" and "caca" graffittied over a postcard portrait of German expressionist Herwarth Walden..
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