The founders of the AACI showed similar themes throughout their artworks, such as a desire to appear with universality, objectivity, and lack any sort of representativeness.
[3] The creators of this organization were primarily Tómas Maldonado, Lidy Prati, Alfredo Hlito, Raúl Lozza, Enio Lommi, Manuel Espinoza, and Juan Melé.
In 1944, Maldonado, Rhod Rothfuss, Gyula Kosice, Lidy Prati, and Carmelo Arden Quin produced the first and only issue of the illustrated magazine Arturo.
Maldonado was a Marxist who had certain utopian ambitions for the art created by the AACI in a new revolutionary societal movement in Latin America.
Exhibition reviews show that the most successful Argentine artists from this period worked in styles which may be categorized as classical and academic; picturesque and romantic; and expressionist.
"[2] For a description of the magazine, the cover was an engraving by Tomás Maldonado and in the inner pages were seen several pieces by this artist and by Lidy Prati as well.
We want to exclude lyricism, drama, symbolism, etc.3) The picture must be entirely built with purely plastic elements, that is to say, planes and colors.
[2] Serial Composition: A piece made by Lidy Prati, done in 1948, and held in the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires.
The Dutch artist Piet Mondrian is historically found to be a crucial influence on the art of Prati and connections are often made about this piece and his works.
This artwork shows a theme of systematic geometric abstraction which can be interpreted through the various red, white, and black rectangles or squares spaced equally far apart from one another in a grid format.
Coplanar Nº13 simultaneously shows the core values of the AACI in its universality and lacking of any symbolism or representational effect.
[9] Composition: This oil on canvas painting by Tómas Maldonado depicts multiple colored and black lines of different width meeting near the center of the piece to form a rectangular shape.
Regarding the painting, author María Amalia Garcia describes, "Composición is based on neo-plastic postulates that seek to exalt the white surface by way of tension generated between different elements inscribed on that support.