De Stijl turns 100 – but still cannot touch the greats of abstract act

Piet Mondrian and the rest of the De Stijl movement were admirable idealists, but their work is constipated compared with the wild moods of their American peersModern art centenaries are piling up. There are (at least) three big ones this year: the Russian revolution with its impact on the avant garde, Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, and the Dutch art and design movement De Stijl, founded by Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg in 1917.De Stijl is the most colourful – if you like red, yell