VANTONGERLOO, Georges

One of the youngest members of the group founding De Stul, this Belgian rejected Mondrian’s strict insistence upon only horizontal and vertical lines. In addition to introducing diagonals and then curves, Vantongerloo favored mathematics, thinking that his works would thus reveal universal truths unavailable to artists unfamiliar with math. To him the measure of beauty is ∞ + 1. What resulted was, first, geometric constructions in the early 1930s—paintings and sculptures with curves and spirals set...