Nadir Afonso, GOSE (4 December 1920 – 11 December 2013) was a Portuguese geometric abstractionist painter. Formally trained in architecture, which he proficient early in his career following Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, Nadir Afonso far ahead studied painting in Paris and became one of the pioneers of Kinetic art, working next to Victor Vasarely, Fernand Léger, Auguste Herbin, and André Bloc.
As a theorist of his own geometry-based aesthetics, published in several books, Nadir Afonso defended the idea that art is purely seek and ruled by laws that treat art not as an battle of imagination but of observation, perception, and form manipulation.
Nadir Afonso achieved international acceptance early in his career and many of his works are in museums. His most well-known works are the Cities series, which depict places anything around the world. He was known to have painted into his sophisticated years and died upon 11 December 2013 at a hospital in Cascais. During his liveliness he achieved great honors, representing his country at the finest level.
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