BILL, Max

One of the few Swiss artists with an international avant-garde reputation, Bill is a severe geometricist predisposed to mathematical formulas, in his words, arisen by virtue of their original means and laws—without external support from natural appearances. His is a pure art without ostensible relation to the natural world. In 1936, he adopted the term Concrete Art, which had been coined by Theo van Doesburg only a few years before, as superior to Abstract Art, and this epithet was...