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:
Piet van Stuivenberg Piet van Stuivenberg Pieter Antonie (Piet or Pieter) van Stuivenberg (January 10, 1901 - December 16, 1988) was a Dutch artist, who was active as sculptor, painter, lithgrapher, and graphic artist. Born in Schiedam, Van Stuivenberg received his art education at the Academy of Fine Arts and Applied Sciences now Willem de Kooning Academy) in Rotterdam. From 1921 to 1927 he attended the evening art classes in sculpting. Van Stuivenberg started his sculptor career as stonemason, and was first influenced by the expressionism and later abstract working with geometric shapes and tighter. In Rotterdam he jointed the art society R33,