The principles and theories that set a foundation for this movement is known as Neoplasticism, which basically means the new plastic art, or otherwise Nieuwe Beelding when said in Dutch, which translates to ‘new imaging’. This is an extract taken from Mondrian’s essay 'Neo-Plasticism in Pictorial Art', “... this new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour”, and I thought this was a good summary of what the De Stijl art movement. The purpose of De Stijl was to express the new ideal of spiritual harmony and order, breaking away from all the overly decorated, highly stylised kind of art, it was more focused at being simple and harmonic and it was very ordered using rectilinear lines (both vertical and horizontal, completely disregarding curves), as well as squares and rectangles. Like I said, De Stijl makes use of simple principles, and the artwork is purely abstract and the aim for De Stijl was to be universally understood and appealing, hence why it was reduced to the most simple and basic art principles such as the use of the three primary colours in their purest form; red, blue, and yellow; black and white were also added in the De Stijl work.
There is no set or specific type of jewellery that can be traced/tied back to this era. But here are a couple of examples of how it has been applied to the modern world.
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