I know my blog is extremely late of posting.
The philosophy of Dadaism is completely opposite of De Stijl. Dadaism is basically anarchy on paper; an abstract meaning behind it either being obvious or lost within chaos. De Stijl is structured, well ordered and almost fascist in it's limit; however, De Stijl has a simple and abstract quality that makes it extremely universal. The ways that Dadaism and De Stijl utilised abstraction were totally different but for a similar purpose. Perhaps that is why Theo Van Doesburg was in on the Dadaist movement even though he was completely opposite.
The quote I chose was said by Piet Mondrian, "Trees... how ghastly!" It humoured me greatly because this is exactly what de Stijl is all about. Using Dadaist ideas of combining David Suzuki with this quote was extremely opposite and random of his motives... I don't know. And yes I know there's a stroke on the letters. I did this last minute because I was too focused on my essay and forgot. Oh well.
So we were supposed to combine the styles of William Morris and Peter Behrens and create an add for an energy efficient light bulb.
Researching both artist's work I tried to get a sence of their two seperate styles and how I would intertwine them into my own. I found these two examples:
