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De Stijl

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What a great idea: why not redesign some of the wonderful designs made by De Stijl or Koloman Moser, or anything art nouveau, art deco.

Easier said than done!

With my trusty pencil, I started charting Vilmos Huszár’s Skaters1. Great fun to make and I started by determining what the measure of “1” was. Almost as if you’re playing with Lego!

“Skaters”

Next up, another member of De Stijl: Bart van der Leck and one of his Factory compositions2. Again I had to start with the measure of “1” block versus “1” stitch. I might in the future follow all of his factory compostions, from realistic to very abstract.

“Fabriek 4”

As I was enjoying this conversion of De Stijl paintings into cross stitch, I decided to go one step further. See if I could adjust a design by Koloman Moser3 into a cross stitch version. Reader, I tried, I did. I failed.

“Moser, Sternblume” “failed again” “forever stuck”

Footnotes

  1. Composition II (Skaters), Vilmos Huszár [1884-1960], Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Netherlands, https://www.kunstmuseum.nl/en/collection/composition-ii-skaters ↩

  2. Compositie 1917 no. 4 (uitgaan van de fabriek), 1917, Bart van der Leck, Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands, https://krollermuller.nl/bart-van-der-leck-compositie-1917-no-4-uitgaan-van-de-fabriek ↩

  3. Vorsatz Papier Sternblume, Koloman Moser, Vienna, https://artvee.com/dl/vorsatz-papier-sternblume-star-flower-book-end-paper ↩