The impact of Paris on Torres-García’s development was immense. It was in Paris, where he remained until 1932, that he discovered what it meant to be an artist […]. It took him only two years to develop both the ideas and the imagery of what he would come to call ‘Universal Constructivism’ […]. The paintings after 1929 are characterized by a measured gridded structure representative of an invisible metaphysical order, and schematic images or signs, evocative of the abstract idea of objects, the two combined to constitute a total world view