Mathematics and art through the strings as with a bird cage and to see one form within another which excited me." The artists Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian founded the De Stijl movement, which they wanted to "establish a visual vocabulary elementary geometrical forms comprehensible by all and adaptable to any discipline". Many of their artworks visibly consist of ruled squares and triangles, sometimes also with circles. De Stijl artists worked in painting, furniture, interior design and architecture. After the breakup of De Stijl, Van Doesburg founded the Avant-garde Art Concret movement, describing his 1929–1930 "Arithmetic Composition", a series of four black
Patrick van der Vorst for an undisclosed sum. After Auctionata's 2017 insolvency, ValueMyStuff was sold as a going concern. Van der Vorst bought back the ValueMyStuff assets in January 2017. Van der Vorst founded St George Valuations in 2011. It conducts in-person valuation assignments, appraising and cataloguing the contents of country estates, museum collections, and individual items from silver spoons to contemporary art. Van der Vorst is a contributor to the Huffington Post. Patrick van der Vorst Patrick van der Vorst (born 2 May 1971) is an entrepreneur, dealer and art expert and former winner on BBC's Dragons Den. Van der Vorst is the