Madrigales ideográficos are two poems by the poet, journalist, and Mexican diplomat, José Juan Tablada, published in 1920 in Caracas, Venezuela, in his slim volume of poetry Li Po and other poems.
This book of poems was edited by Eduardo Nuñez Coll, and printed by the Bolívar Press on January 6, 1920.
A game to arrange lines of traditional poetry to form pictures with them, Li Po and other poems is a book of these drawings crafted entirely out of poetic verse.
The drawings produced by this action create a poetic space that Mexican poet Octavio Paz christened "topoemas".
The inclusion of the word "Rouge" in the title and the mention of the color crimson in the poem imagines the blood coming from the speaker's heart, and alludes to two classic models of passionate love: the Moulin Rouge in Paris, and the other model from the French opera by Bizet, Carmen.