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Who invented elementarism?

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Theo van Doesburg , 1883-1931, Dutch painter, teacher, and writer. Together with Mondrian he founded the magazine De Stijl and successfully proselytized in Europe for the new aesthetic of abstraction, simplicity, clarity, and harmony. In 1926 he developed a more dynamic version of De Stijl principles, called elementarism.

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