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Arnaud Maggs (1926–2012): The Grid and Beyond Arnaud Maggs (May 5, 1926 – November 17, 2012) was a Canadian artist and photographer whose distinctive approach to portraiture—characterized by meticulously arranged grid compositions—established him as a pivotal figure in conceptual art and fine photography. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Maggs’s artistic journey began with formative influences rooted in graphic design and typography, shaping his visual language and informing his enduring fascination with systems of identification and classification. He pursued formal training at the Scuola da belle…
A chart of Arnaud Maggs's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
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