![]() In this sense Van Doesburg’s last “simultaneous” and “mathematical” compositions mark the end of an era. ![]() 18 Nevertheless, Van Doesburg’s propagandist activities had been an important force for the partisan geometric style and his death at Davos in 1931 must surely count as a factor relevant to the relaxation of extreme positions and the compromise of geometric and non-geometric currents which characterizes Parisian art of the thirties. We do not want an artistic handwriting.” (my italics). Typewriting is clearer, more legible, and more beautiful than handwriting. IN THE YEARS AROUND 1930 when Mondrian was painting his most minimal works, Van Doesburg had “totally finished with any arrangement or composition guided with sentiment.” 17 Art concret of 1930 was the last theoretical manifestation of Van Doesburg’s ever eloquent demands for an objective method, or at least a utilitarian universalism, and, though his last writings approach a “scientific” character, this “science” still held a spiritual and esthetic content revealing but a tougher kind of what was nevertheless akin to the machine-romanticism of twenties abstractionist theory: “If one does not succeed in tracing a straight line by hand, one takes a ruler. We are Quakers, whose severely cut clothes are made of damask and cloth of silver. ![]() Without feeling? Yes, but not without spirit, not without universality and, as I think, not empty. ![]() a controllable structure, a solid structure without chance or individual caprice. ![]()
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