In Leiden, Theo van Doesburg launched a small magazine to carry a large idea: that painting, architecture and design should be rebuilt from horizontals, verticals and primary colors. Piet Mondrian's essays in its pages worked out the theory of Neo-Plasticism issue by issue.
A magazine became a movement: De Stijl's geometry reshaped abstract painting, the Bauhaus curriculum and the look of the modern built world.
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