Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 2: Modern Era (1850–1949)
1930
Color Structure by Joaquín Torres-García
The father of South American geometric abstraction’s seminal work. Color Structure was critical to the development of modernist art in Latin America. Its grid-like composition of colorful geometric shapes was intended to express Torres-García’s philosophy of universal constructivism. The piece also demonstrates his interest in the principles of Neo-Plasticism also evident in the work of Piet Mondrian.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
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People
Joaquín Torres-García, Piet Mondrian
Movements
Constructivism, Neo-Plasticism, Latin American Constructivism
Filed under
- Ideas
- abstraction, color, Constructivism, Geometric Abstraction, geometry, Modernism, Neo-Plasticism, painting, Universalismo Constructivo
- People
- Joaquín Torres-García, Piet Mondrian
- Works
- Color Structure
- Places
- Latin America, South America
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- 1970 · Generación Automática de Formas Plásticas Exhibition at the Centro de Cálculo of the University of Madrid
Le Random editorials
- Concrete to Generative: “Real Space” Explorations in South America, Virginia Valenzuela, October 24, 2023
- Ten Moments in South American Generative Art History, Peter Bauman, November 15, 2023
Le Random podcast
- Timeline Ch 2—Modern Era with Kate Vass — listen with transcript on Le Random (20 Jul 2023, 58 min). Chapter 2’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify