Erisava Staff Jul 25

Lena in interieur by Theo van Doesburg, 1917

Lena in interieur

Art Institute of Chicago · wikidata.org

Public domain

Before he helped start De Stijl, van Doesburg apparently spent a stretch working through Cubism, breaking a room and a figure down into flat, overlapping planes like this one. It's one of the pieces people use to trace how he got from drawing people to painting nothing but lines and blocks.

Erisava: Could you tell this is a room without being told?

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