The White Stripes, a famous American garage band, consisting of the duo- Jack White (vocals/guitar) and Meg White (drums/vocals) famously named there second studio album, "De Stijl". Lead singer Jack White had been an admirer of the movement for a long time, especially of furniture designer Gerrit Rietveld who also designed the Rietveld Schröder House, which Jack and Meg White visited while on tour in the Netherlands.
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De Stijl Movement, or neoplasticism, was a Dutch artistic movement founded in 1917. In a narrower sense, the term De Stijl is used to refer to a body of work from 1917 to 1931 founded in the Netherlands. The De Stijl sought to express a new Utopian ideal of spiritual harmony and order. Proponents of this movement advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and color; they simplified visual compositions to the vertical and horizontal directions, and used only primary colors along with black and white.
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