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Rhythm of a Russian Dance

June 1918

Theo van Doesburg

Material / technique
Oil on canvas
Attribution / role
Collection / source
The Museum of Modern Art

Artwork notes

Artist-wide context

He connected painters, designers and architects through the journal and later pushed the use of diagonal lines.

Materials, marks and colour

Artist-wide context; individual works may differ.

Media and surface

Paint, diagrams and interior colour schemes share a geometric vocabulary.

Marks and structure

Rectangles can balance asymmetrically; diagonals later increase the sense of movement.

Palette and light

Limited colours make differences of direction and proportion especially clear.

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