De Stijl vs Geometric
Geometric is the cross-discipline counterpart of De Stijl — reduces imagery to pure line, symmetry, and primary geometry.
De Stijl
A Dutch avant-garde movement reducing design to straight lines, rectangular planes, and primary colours plus black, white, and grey — composing buildings from sliding, intersecting planes for a radically abstract, weightless effect.
- Composition from sliding, intersecting rectangular planes
- Strict palette of primary colours with black, white, and grey
- Straight horizontal and vertical lines; no curves or diagonals
- Dissolution of the solid box into floating, weightless surfaces
- Flexible open interiors with movable partitions
Geometric
A precise tattoo style composed of crisp lines, triangles, hexagons, and repeated shapes arranged into balanced symmetrical constructions.
- Crisp straight linework
- Triangles, hexagons and polygons
- Symmetry and tessellation
- Interlocking prismatic facets
- Dotwork-shaded geometric fields
At a glance
| De Stijl | Geometric | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1917–1931 | 2000s–present |
| Discipline | Architecture | Tattoo |
| Region | Netherlands, Utrecht | Global, United States, Europe |
| Family | Modernism | Blackwork |
| Formal traits | rectilinear, primary-colour, planar, asymmetric | precise, symmetrical, linear, tessellated |
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