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SM2220 Generative Art & Literature
Linda Lai
Examples of Generative Art in the visual
arts and other art forms
(revised on
Bridget Riley (b. 1931)
Riley’s
paintings exist on their own terms. Her subject matter is restricted to a
simple vocabulary of colors and abstract shapes. These form her starting point
and from them she develops formal progressions, color relationships and
repetitive structures. The effect is to generate sensations of movement, light
and space: visual experiences which also have a strong emotional and even
visceral resonance.
from: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/riley_bridget.html
Jackson
Pollock (1912-1956)
http://moca-la.org/museum/pc_search_results.php?&keywords=Jackson%20Pollock&x=0&y=0
American painter, the commanding figure of the Abstract
Expressionist movement.
He began to study painting in 1929 at the Art Students'
League, New York, under the Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton. During the
1930s he worked in the manner of the Regionalists, being influenced also by the
Mexican muralist painters (Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros) and by certain aspects of
Surrealism. From
1938 to 1942 he worked for the Federal Art Project. By the mid 1940s he was
painting in a completely abstract manner, and the `drip and splash' style for
which he is best known emerged with some abruptness in 1947. Instead of using
the traditional easel he affixed his canvas to the floor or the wall and poured
and dripped his paint from a can; instead of using brushes he manipulated it
with `sticks, trowels or knives' (to use his own words), sometimes obtaining a
heavy impasto by an admixture of `sand, broken glass or other foreign matter'.
This manner of Action painting had in common with Surrealist theories of
automatism that it was supposed by artists and critics alike to result in a
direct expression or revelation of the unconscious moods of the artist.
Pollock's name is also associated with the introduction
of the All-over style of painting which avoids any points of emphasis or
identifiable parts within the whole canvas and therefore abandons the
traditional idea of composition in terms of relations among parts. The design
of his painting had no relation to the shape or size of the canvas -- indeed in
the finished work the canvas was sometimes docked or trimmed to suit the image.
All these characteristics were important for the new American painting which
matured in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
More
work examples for Generative Art in visual arts:
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Josef
Albers |
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Frank
Stella |
(1) “Protractor
Series” (93 paintings based on 31 canvas formats each with 3
compositional types)
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Sol LeWitt |
(1)
“Squares with Corners Torn off” (1975) X |
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Dorothea Rockburne |
(1) “Set” (1970)
– inspiration from Mathematics |
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Jennifer
Bartlett |
(1) “Rhapsody” (1975-76)
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Doug Huebler |
(1)
“Duration Piece No. 6” (NY, 4/1969) – photo series X |
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Sonia
Sheridan |
(1)
mono-prints series based on one image (1963-64) |
Music / sound:
See notes
on Serialism / Serial Thinking from last lecture of
SM2202 Micro Narratives
Mozart’s Dice Game
http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/Mozart/dice/collaborate.cgi?tables=yes
Mozart's
Dice Music was a `musical game' involving the putting together of musical
fragments by chance (i.e., decided on the roll of the dice)
Video works:
Please
refer to samples works by Bryant Hui, Kelly Kwan, and
Ada Wong on CIL web-site. (See “Works” -
Micro-narratives – final projects)
Digital works:
Spirograph Applet
http://www.wordsmith.org/anu/java/spirograph.html
Crypt Machine (Linda Lai + Keith Lam / presented
at the Writing Machine Collective e1, 2004)
Advanced
level:
Levitated,
Jared Tarbell:
http://www.levitated.net
Inter-disciplinary works / photographic works…:
Five
http://www.varchive.org.uk/var/fivestory/pages/gallery.htm
Bernd & Hiller Becher: topologies, repetitive architectural permutations
in photo sequence / formal generative system
http://www.diacenter.org/exhibs%5Fb/becher/
http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_work_lg_14_1.html
(Water Towers 1980)
http://www.mam.org/collections/photography_detail_becher.htm
(Water Towers 1978)
http://www.soenkeziesche.org/projects/becher.html
Internet approach
http://www.artnet.com/ag/fineartthumbnails.asp?aid=2179
Art net
Lew Thomas: photo
series – collage compilation, photo sequence / structural generative system
http://www.lewthomas.com/index.htm
Betty Collings: topological model (process artist using
topological geometry to transform a minimal organic shape into multiple,
biomorphic, inflatable forms; combining and juxtaposing forms to produce sets
and subsets)
http://www.bettycollings.com/index.html
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