Theo van Doesburg

Person · Open Library

Born

1883

Died

1931

Works

40

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Netherlands

Active from

1883

Active to

1931

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

4

Total plays

60

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,510x

2. Densely Connected Convolutional Networks

   · 2017 · cited 33,773x

3. Molecular dynamics with coupling to an external bath

   · 1984 · cited 28,838x

4. MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

   · 2012 · cited 24,647x

5. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

   · 2016 · cited 23,655x

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Quotes

• “[ Futurism's] ..superficial expression of velocity, the aeroplane, the racing-car and so on, is but a weak expression of the inner velocity of thought compared to which the velocity of radium represents nothing but inertia.. .The mimetic expression of velocity (whatever its form may be: the aeroplane, the automobile, and so on) is diametrically opposed to the character of painting, the supreme origin of which is to be found in inner life.”
• “Piet Mondrian realizes the importance of line. The line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects perceived was all-important. The white canvas is almost solemn. Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything – that is, the spiritual.”
• “European art [however] has developed from mimetic-ism and only today is arriving at an elementary plastic art.”
• “However, Man as the appearance of utmost internality, of spirit, does not possess any point in front, at the side or the back, no fixed point at all towards which he could define a dimension. This explains why in expressing the spiritual, in making spirit an artifact, he will be forced to a moto-stereometric form of expression. This moto-stereometric form of expression represents the appearance of a 4-n dimensional world in a world of three dimensions.”
• “..modern destruction begins where architectural structure is opened up and set into motion by colour relationships. The colour-planes, however, are always in orthogonal relationship.”
• “..art and life are no longer separate domains.. .The word 'art' no longer has anything to say to us. In place of that, we [=De Stijl-artists ] insist upon the construction of our surroundings according to creative laws, deriving from a fixed principle. (quote of 1918)”

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