Max Bill
Max Bill
Max Billwas a Swiss architect, artist, painter, typeface designer, industrial designer and graphic designer...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth22 December 1908
CountrySwitzerland
balanced basic becomes behind figure four principle space square
When a figure is balanced on a pivot in space it becomes elongated in all four directions; that is the basic principle behind this square on a pivot.
alongside artists balance based emotional harmony methods modern personal work
Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.
artist conquered exploit field free recently resources vast
In one of these recently conquered domains, the artist is now free to exploit the untapped resources of that vast new field of inspiration.
knowing firsts made
I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.
art natural resources
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.
art ideas influence
I endeavor to make a picture, for instance, exert a positive influence on the observer by its coloring, mood, and compositional idea, encouraging, say, activation, tranquilization, concentration, or harmony...
taken ideas creating
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.
art philosophy lasts
Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.
thinking train-of-thought ideas
Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.
art thinking imagination
And despite the fact that the basis of this mathematical way of thinking in art is in reason, its dynamic content is able to launch us on astral flights which soar into unknown and still uncharted regions of the imagination.
art vision orbit
The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.
central exactly however strip
The first strip that I made is exactly the same as this one, which is a real Moebius strip, however that one was shorter and had a central support.