We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules – without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.
Max Bill Quotes
Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.
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| Birth: | 22nd December, 1908 |
| Death: | 9th December, 1994 |
| Nationality: | Swiss |
| Profession: | Architect, Graphic Designer, Industrial Designer, Painter |
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