By César Domela
Located in Berlin, MD
César Domela (15 January 1900 – 30 December 1992) was a Dutch sculptor, painter, photographer, and typographer, and a key member of the De Stijl movement This is a very representative piece in a pure abstraction form. On light brown, thick woven, Arches paper. Bold saturated colors of mauve, red, white, and blue.
César Domela was one of the most innovative and influential artists working in Europe during the mid-twentieth century. Initially becoming a prominent member of the De Stijl group with Mondrian and van Doesburg, Domela’s approach evolved into three dimensional abstraction described as “enriched Constructivism.” Domela’s exquisitely harmonious integration of materials forms a transcendent visual polyphony. Each individual material was chosen after extensive, almost obsessive, consideration to its unique physical properties of colour, texture, opacity, sheen, and what musicians refer to as “timbre”, the specific resonance. Domela favoured distinctive materials such as perspex, shagreen, sharkskin, copper, thuya and palmtree wood...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract César Domela Art