Geometric and MADI Museum

Did you know geometric art and MADI is a movement? Neither did I, they don't cover it in art history. And so, the Museum of Geometric and MADI art in Dallas taught us something new.

MADI is an "international art movement focusing on geometric shapes that spill out of the traditional frame, and articulated mobile structures, MADI artists refuse to make the object representative. Instead, the focus is on the object and the colors themselves." –GeometricMadiMuseum.org

"In August of 1946, Carmelo Arden Quin read to the public the MADI Manifesto which he had written, and which launched the MADI movement."

Above: Arden Quin

Above: Oscar D'Amico 1923-2003

As a young man D'Amico studied architecture, philosophy and painted murals on the side. Soon he began working as a set designer for Orson Wells in Hollywood and others in the Italian movie industry.

Above: Yaacov Agam 1928-NA Titled "Sun and Moon Intimacy"

Received training at the Bauhaus, and had his first one man show in Paris 1953 where he still lives today.

Above: Ettore Le Donne 1950–NA

Above: Jan Maarten Voskuil 1964–NA,  Titled "There is no Point in Orange."

"Based on the premise formulated by De Stijl and Theo Van Doesburn that a work of art refers only to itself, Voskuil's abstract, wonkily geometric paintings-cum-sculptures are full of rigor and humor. His works are oriented on the circle and rectangle, whose forms he alters and distorts using mathematical principles."

Above: Auguste Herbin 1882-1960

One of the most important geometric artists of the 20th century. Herbin developed his "alphabet plastique," where forms and colors stand for letters, and greatly influenced several generations of geometric painters.