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:
Cornelis van der Sluys Cornelis van der Sluys Cornelis van der Sluys (Brouwershaven, 4 June 1883 – Amsterdam, 4 January 1944) was a Dutch furniture and textile designer, interior designer, decorator, glass painter, sculptor, goldsmith, organizer, and publicist. Van der Sluys designed textile, made designs for carpets, wallpaper and chairs and ceramic decorations on pottery for the first Steenwijker Art Pottery Factory. From 1901 to 1904 he designed Belgian and French Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts copper work and designs for batiks for the Hague art dealers. Cornelis van der Sluys was the son of Willem van der Sluys (agent) and Anna Constandse. He