Van Doesburg’s embrace of diagonal lines famously put him at odds with Piet Mondrian, whose De Stijl compositions favored strict horizontal & vertical lines. Their artistic disagreement helped mark a split within the movement.
This conflict was the subject of “BATTLE LINES,” the 2nd Place 🥈 winner of the 2026 Internet Archive Public Domain Film Remix Contest! 🎬
Watch the short film here ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/20260108_20260108_0507
#PublicDomain
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