Cabezas
1928
Joaquín Torres-García creates a visual puzzle here, mashing up European Cubism with the bold, graphic feel of ancient artifacts. You've got two stylized faces staring out—one pale and ghostly, the other a deep, earthy brown—surrounded by a chaotic grid of symbols, letters, and what look like musical notes. Painted in 1928 during his time in Paris, this modernist piece shows him experimenting with the ideas that would later become his famous 'Universal Constructivism.' He was obsessed with finding a universal visual language, essentially trying to create a new alphabet of shapes that anyone, anywhere could understand.
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