# De Stijl

> Horizontal and vertical black lines divide red, yellow, blue and white rectangles into a strict orthogonal composition.

[Web page](https://aistylebook.com/image/de-stijl-orthogonal/)

## About this style

De Stijl builds order from horizontal and vertical lines and primary-color planes. Interlocking rectangles simplify contours while white fields and black bands help describe the forms. Its geometry stays orthogonal, retaining the original image through recognizable positions and connections.

De Stijl is a historical art and design movement; this treatment emphasizes orthogonal forms and asymmetrical balance.

Offset rectangles suggesting a figure, with small red-blue accents, make white areas actively shape the composition.

### How the style changes different subjects

- **Portrait**: Geometric contours and color shapes reduce facial detail, emphasizing placement, proportion and open space.

- **Landscape**: Lines, planes and grids organize buildings and terrain around spatial order rather than texture.

- **Object**: Circles, rectangles and straight lines break objects into balanced compositional elements.

**Subjects**: Choose geometric buildings, tools, clear figures or orderly object arrangements with distinct colors and scales.

## Visual keywords

horizontal and vertical lines · primary colors · white negative space · rectangular fields · orthogonal grid · flat composition

## Names and related terms

Orthogonal primary-color composition · De Stijl geometry

## Style examples

- [Portrait](https://img.aistylebook.com/brand-ip-artworks/de-stijl-orthogonal-people.png?v=0c6ab416aa938903)

- [Landscape](https://img.aistylebook.com/brand-ip-artworks/de-stijl-orthogonal-landscape.png?v=814278e856b80f30)

- [Object](https://img.aistylebook.com/brand-ip-artworks/de-stijl-orthogonal-objects.png?v=72f7578a0f6d82d0)

## Reusable style prompt

```text
Preserve the original framing, identifying features and spatial relationships while translating every form into a De Stijl orthogonal structure. Use only horizontal and vertical black bands with flat rectangular fields of red, yellow, blue and white. Resolve curved silhouettes into carefully stepped rectilinear boundaries, keeping the original visual anchors recognizable. Vary rectangle size and line weight to balance dense and open areas. Let the grid emerge from existing structures rather than overlaying an unrelated pattern. Keep all planes strictly flat, with crisp edges and no diagonal lines, circles, gradients, texture or cast shadows.
```

## Photo creation and prompts

Photo generation requires an account and credits; the cost is shown before generation.

[Create with this style](https://aistylebook.com/photo.html?style=35001&lang=en#studio)

## Related styles

- [Bauhaus](https://aistylebook.com/image/bauhaus/): Shares primary colors and rational geometry; Bauhaus also uses circles, triangles and lines in varied directions.

- [Geometric Flat](https://aistylebook.com/image/geometric-flat/): Also simplifies forms into geometric fields, retaining arcs, polygons and a few restrained gradients.

- [Flat Vector](https://aistylebook.com/image/flat-vector/): Also builds forms from solid colors, keeping natural curves without a strict orthogonal grid.

## References

- [The Met: Geometric Abstraction and De Stijl](https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/geometric-abstraction)