In November 1918 Georges Vantongerloo signed the manifesto of De Stijl alongside Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg and others, the only Belgian artist to do so. More than Mondrian, who used mostly primary colours – red, blue and yellow – Vantongerloo introduced secondary colours into his painted works. The painting Study no. III is one of the earliest examples. It illustrates his colour theory, in which he establishes seven principal colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. In addition, he distinguished five transitional colours, being red-orange, yellow-orange, blue-green, indigo-blue and indigo-violet. Vantongerloo linked his palette to twelve-tone music. This painting has the nature of an experiment in which Vantongerloo puts his colour theory into practice.
| Artist |
Georges Vantongerloo
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| Title | Study no III |
| Date | 1920 |
| Period | 20th century |
| Location | Brussels TGN |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | inscription reverse, centre: Georges Vantongerloo 1920 |
| number reverse, upper left: 5 | |
| labels (identifying artifacts) typed on a white label: Georges Vantongerloo / (5) études Bruxelles 1920 | |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | casein paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 2009-B |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2009-B |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/157/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
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abstract art (general art genre)
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300134149 nonobjective AAT |
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Abstract, Non-representational Art
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22C4 colours, pigments, and paints Iconclass 48C5156 frame of painting, etc. Iconclass 49D3 planimetry, geometry Iconclass 49D31 point (~ planimetry, geometry) Iconclass 49D32 line (~ planimetry, geometry) Iconclass |
| School / Style | abstract (general art genre) AAT |
| Georges Vantongerloo : 1882-1965 (tentoonstelling Brussel, KMSKB, 23.01 - 16.03.1981) / Max Bill, Phil Mertens, A. Thomas-Janowski. - Brussel : Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België (Brussel), 1981 (p. 46, nr. 11 (ill.)) |
| De kleurentheorieën van Vantongerloo en reacties van andere De Stijl-Kunstenaars = Vantongerloo's colour theories; Reactions by other members of De Stijl-group / H.J. Vink, Georges Baines. - Brussel : Internationaal Centrum voor Structuuranalyse en Constructivisme, 1996 (p. 22-23 (ill.)) |
| Max Bill - Georges Vantongerloo : A Working Friendship ; 50 Years of Sculpture, Painting and Drawing (exhibition London, Annely Juda Fine Art, 26.6 - 14.9.1996) / Angela Thomas Bill. - Londen : Annely Juda Fine Art, 1996 |
| Georges Vantongerloo 1886-1965 (tentoonstelling Antwerpen, Galerij Ronny Van De Velde, 15.01.1996 - 31.03.1997) / Jan Ceuleers. - Gent : Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 1996 ; Antwerpen : Pandora, 1996 (p. 67 (ill.), 69-70) |
| Het heelal in de huiskamer : Georges Vantongerloo en de Nieuwe Beelding van De Stijl = The Universe in the Living Room : Georges Vantongerloo in the Space of De Stijl / Marek Wieczorek. - Utrecht : Centraal Museum, 2002 (p. 114-115, 117 (ill. 61)) |
| Annely Juda - A Celebration, born Kassel 23rd September 1914, died London 13th August 2006 (exhibition London, Annely Juda Fine Art, 24.5 - 28.7.2007) / Norbert Lynton, Katharina Schmidt, Nicholas Serota, Volker Rattemeyer, Serge Lemoine, Steven A. Nash, Tadayasu Sakai. - Londen : Annely Juda Fine Art, 2007 (s.p.) |
| Georges Vantongerloo 1886-1965 : Un pionnier de la sculpture moderne ; "De la sphère à l'aurore boréale" (Exposition le Cateau-Cambrésis, Musée Matisse, 28.10.2007 - 02.03.2008 ; Oostende, PMMK, 19.04.2008 - 31.08.2008) / Georges Baines, Jean-Étienne Gislain, Georges Roque. - Paris : Gallimard, 2007 |
| Mondrian & De Stijl (exhibition Madrid 'Mondrian and De Stijl', Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 11.11.2020 - 01.03.2021) / Hans Janssen, Michael White, Marek Wieczorek. - Madrid : Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2020 ; Den Haag : Stiftung Kunstmusem Den Haag, 2020 (p. 105) |
| Jozef Peeters en de strijd tegen den tingeltangel : Het (inter)nationale netwerk van een Antwerpse pionier in de avant-garde van de jaren 1920 / Peter J.H. Pauwels. - Antwerpen : Ronny Van de Velde, 2022 ; Gent : Ludion, 2022 (p.81) |
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