Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 2: Modern Era (1850–1949)

1946

Grupo Madí Movement

Event · South America

A cream printed flyer headed MADÍ above its declaration and the line Movimiento MADI — Buenos Aires — Junio de 1946.
Movimiento Madí flyer, Buenos Aires, June 1946. Movimiento Madí. Getty Research Institute. Individual designer not identified on the source page. Image source.

Formed by artists including Gyula Kosice, Carmelo Arden Quin, and Rhod Rothfuss, Madí embraced concrete art and sought to create a new visual language using abstract shapes and colors, considered an important part of the history of Concrete Art in Latin America.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.

Sources

People

Carmelo Arden Quin, Gyula Kosice, Rhod Rothfuss

Movements

concrete art, Madí, Latin American Constructivism

Filed under

Ideas
abstraction, concrete art
People
Carmelo Arden Quin, Gyula Kosice, Rhod Rothfuss
Organisations
AACI, Madí
Places
Latin America

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