Aubette (building)
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L'Aubette is a historic building on the Place Kléber in Strasbourg, France. It was built by Jacques-François Blondel in 1765–1772 on the site of a medieval monastery, but was burnt out in 1870. In 192
The Aubette on the Place Kléber
Aubette dance hall in 1929
The restored dance hall in 2016
Neoplasticism
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Neoplasticism or neo-plasticism, originating from the Dutch Nieuwe Beelding, is an avant-garde art theory proposed by Piet Mondrian in 1917 and initially employed by the De Stijl art movement. The mos
Aubette (building)
…the artists' work on the building. As the pioneer of the Dutch De Stijl movement, Theo van Doesburg employed his perspective on elementarism and the neo-plastic style to decorate the ceiling and wall of the cinema-dancehall with an orthogonal composition in primary colors. Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Jean Arp, two…
Piet Mondriaan: Composition C (No.III) with Red, Yellow and Blue, 1935
Mondrian's 1921 book, Le Néo-Plasticisme
Nicolas Poussin: Et in Arcadia ego. Ca. 1638–1640. Louvre.
Horus (Egyptian): Expressive of idea