A Form Of Geometric Art Invented By The Famous Dutch Artist

Elementarism is a form of geometric art invented by the famous Dutch artist named Theo van Doesburg. According to him, the â€Å"new architecture† was â€Å"elementary† (Misa, pg. 238), i.e. architecture should be established and then advanced from its rudimentary elements of construction. He said that architecture wasn’t a subject that could be understood in a brief manner, it was meant to be studied in detail with a firm and complete knowledge about its â€Å"function, mass, plane, time, space, light, color and material† (Misa, pg. 238). Keeping this concept of ‘elementarism’ in mind, skilled architects like Rietvelf and van Doesburg build the Schroeder house in Utrecht and a reconstructive plan for Berlin respectively, which later came to be known as†¦show more content†¦Independent investors, designers, architects along with many autonomous organizations used to play an important role in developing skyscrapers, synthetic dyes, electricity and other household technologies in the earlier years, but the military set its stamp from the start of the industrial era (Misa, pg. 251). The technologies produced by the military such as computer chips, nuclear power, artificial intelligence, Internet, etc. gave the world a kick-start in the field of modern technology (Misa, pg. 251). The Apollo Missions between the years 1969 and 1972 were possible only due to the military derived rockets; even the space shuttles missions were successful due to the satellites positioned by the military (Misa, pg. 251). Hi ghly advanced technological companies such as IBM, Boeing, Lockheed, MIT, Raytheon, etc. too were being funded by the military (Misa, pg. 251). This ongoing state of economic affair during the industrial era was termed as Pentagon capitalism by an industrial engineer named Seymour Melman (Misa, pg. 251). According to him, it was a really gloomy time because the capitalism went from being ‘profit maximizing’ to ‘contract maximizing’ (Misa, pg. 251). Furthermore the 20th century saw the universities as well as companies, government foundations and all military services knee deep into finding and funding new technologies (Misa, pg. 252). This was being done in the hope of