Inferior Universe

“Here an inferior universe, gridded, compartimented, geometrical, 
offered itself to the gaze of the heavenly wanderer.”
Paul Morand, Fleche d'Orient, 1932

Fedele Azari - Volo Liberato (Prospettive in volo) - 1926
via Kafka's Appartment

Josef Albers - Transparence and Space-illusion - in Interaction of Color - 1963

Donald Judd - Untitled - 1989

Number, Measure, and Law

"We need number, measure, and law as armor and as a weapon, lest we be swallowed up by chaos."

Oskar Schlemmer, Perspektiven, 1932

quoted by Beau H Rhee

Koloman Moser - Flower basket S 781 - 1906

Giuseppe Terragni - Casa del Fascio - Como - 1932

Sol Lewitt - 21B - 1989
via Archive of Affinities

Nothing

"The artist should never comtemplate making a work of art that is about something; a successful work of art can only ever be about nothing. The artist's complete negation of intent thus creating a reflective surface into which the critic, curator or collector can gaze and see only himself."
Sol Lewitt, Paragraphs on Conceptual Art, 1967
via Scott King

Katarzyna Kobro and Władysław Strzemiński - Chałupy - August 1928

via Monoskop

“At the beginning of the world can be found an irrational freedom rooted in the depths of oblivion, a chasm from which spring the dark torents of life…
The light of Logos triumphs from darkness, the cosmic harmony triumph of chaos, but without the abyss of darkness and chaos, there would  be, in the ongoing evolution, neither life, nor freedom. Freedom lies in the dark abyss, in the oblivion, but without it all is meaningless… Freedom is uncreated, because it is not nature, it precedes the world, it is rooted in the initial oblivion.”
Nicolas Berdyaev, Freedom and the Spirit, 1927

Above Average

“Today the Wise men of art call this work megalomania. They are right. Everything which exists above the average is a mania. I hear that the verdict passed on Russian work is: mechanomania.”

 El Lissitzky, “Architecture in the USSR”, 1924

via Charnel House

Jorge Oteiza - Conclusió experimental per a Mondrian - 1973

Sol Lewitt - Incomplete Open Cube - 1968

Gerrit Rietveld - Steltman Chair - 1963