Cercle Et Carré Analysis

The name of "Cercle et Carré" proposed by Seuphor was not immediately accepted as a suggestion for the program the geometric abstraction with which all the members of this group did not agree. For Seuphor, the circle and the square were "the simplest emblem of the totality of things. The rational world and the sensory world, the earth and the sky of ancient Chinese symbolism, rectilinear geometry and curvilinear geometry, man and woman, Mondrian and Arp." However, the attractive design of the logo proposed by Daura with the circle and square motif was quickly accepted as the definitive image and denomination of the group that, at that time, brought together about twenty artists.

Two actions were undertaken simultaneously. Firstly, its internationalization
Effectively, it was a significant exhibition because of the number of works on display (130) and, particularly, due to the importance of the 46 artists represented, among them Hans Arp, Willi Baumeister, German Cueto, Pierre Daura, Wassily Kandisky, Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian, Amadée Ozenfant, Antoine Pevsner, Enrico Prampolini, Alberto Sartoris, Kurt Schwitters, Sophie Taeuber-Arp Joaquín Torres García, and Georges Vanrongerloo. Two lectures by Seuphor and Torres-García, as well as an audition by the futurist musician Luigi Russolo, accompanied the opening and closing of this
Seuphor, stated that "À Paris même, le Corbusier, Ozenfant et Léger nous soutenaient avec enthousiasme." In the first issue, the books of Le "Corbusier and Jeanneret" were also recommended in "Avez-vous dans votre bibliothèque…" as well as for the next issue of "des articles de Le Corbusier". And, indeed, "Architecture et urbanisme en tout. Extraits de deux conférences improvisées à Buenos-Aires (Faculté des Sciences Exactes) en octobre 1929" was published in the third and last issue of the magazine. However, in the letter that Torres addresses to Seuphor on 2 April 1930, Le Corbusier does not appear on the long list of members attached to Cercle et Carré, with payment of the corresponding