Serialism closely related to certain works from the de Stijl and Bauhaus movements in design and architecture called "serial art" by some writers (; ; ; ), specifically the paintings of Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, Bart van Leck, Georg van Tongerloo, Richard Paul Lohse, and Burgoyne Diller, who had been seeking to “avoid repetition and symmetry on all structural levels and working with a limited number of elements” . Stockhausen described the final synthesis in this manner: So serial thinking is something that's come into our consciousness and will be there forever: it's relativity and nothing else. It just says:
Vrancke van der Stockt often reproduce motifs from paintings by Van der Weyden with only minor alterations, as is evidenced by "Kneeling Donor with Saint John the Baptist", now in the collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, in which the figure of the saint closely resembles that in Van der Weyden's "Medici Madonna". His "Pietà" is likewise modelled on van der Weyden's "Pietà". Although he was primarily a painter, Van der Stockt also completed cartoons for embroideries and tapestries and designs for woodcuts. None of Van der Stockt's works are documented; rather, they have been attributed to him based on their stylistic relationship