Originally a publication, De Stijl was founded in 1917 by two pioneers of abstract art, Piet Mondrian and Theo Van Doesburg. De Stijl means style in dutch. The magazine De Still became a vehicle for Mondrain’s ideas on art, and in a series of articles in the first year’s issues, he defined his aims and used, perhaps for the first time, the term Neo-plasticism. This became the name for the type of abstract art he and the De Stijl circle practiced.
