I love this type of art. I make digital geometric art, currently complex tilings, at https://andrewwulf.com (not selling any, just showing it). Geometry and math can be very appealing to people although itâs not that popular commercially today outside of NFTs. Repetition and variation can be powerful tools in art. WacĹaw deserves more recognition.
I enjoyed those, thanks! I like the circular grid eddy type ones the most. I wanted to highlight some favourites but they have a curious phenomenon where, after studying one for a while, looking at a new one is so refreshing that it always ranks higher so I just get stuck in a circle myself!
Reminds me of the graphic design at "May Contain Hackers 2022" that I really liked: https://mch2022.org/#/ which included a tool to generate similar designs https://mch2022.org/design/
Also reminds me of Bernard Cohen works that I loved in Tate Modern. For me, he achieves something next level which is to go beyond just pressing my "pleasing geometric pattern" buttons but also the type of order/disorder that feels like a human intelligence at work too.
I can't find a page including the ones I have in mind but:
https://www.flowersgallery.com/exhibitions/387-bernard-cohen...
https://www.artnet.com/artists/bernard-cohen/
Sod it, this is probably more comprehensive:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bernard+cohen+works&iax=images&ia=...
I feel compelled to add my own geometric art for the shake of completion since it seems like a hobby from a few of us HNers:
https://omarrr.com/isolation-pixel-series
(Not selling either)
Great work! One of my favorites people should check out is https://x.com/beesandbombs
Also on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davebeesbombs/
I would buy a t-shirt for every one of the designs on the "Recent" page. You should think about adding a merch page.
Thanks to this post and a comment referring Iterated Function System, two polish people are interestingly connected in the field of the subject: WacĹaw SierpiĹski (SierpiĹski triangle) [1] and "WacĹaw Szpakowski", they could even met at the time.
Another interesting thing about such connections is trying to find a mention of them both in the same media (web page, research paper, etc) so thanks to this a very promising book is found "Art, algorithm and ambiguity. Aesthetic ambiguity with regard to metacognition based on visual semiotics, visual rhetoric and Gestalt Psychology" by Axel Rohlfs [2]. This method sometimes works in other fields, if a researcher is aware of a couple obscure facts, names or entities in a field, he or she is usually very good at the field or at least dedicated enough time to it
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wac%C5%82aw_Sierpi%C5%84ski
[2] https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/8576/1/Rohlfs_Art...
If you like this sort of thing, there is a whole movement called âOp Artâ you should check out[1]. People like Bridget Riley in particular. I saw the big Riley exhibition at the Tate in 2003 and it was fantastic. They had this enormous one-off piece that had been specifically created for this exhibition on the first wall you encountered as you went in. It was basically a massive very bright white wall with a quite spacious grid of 3/4 circles in black. The gap in each circle was rotated as you looked across and up and down the wall. It was such a perculiar optical effect it made your brain hallucinate colours and movement in this purely static, black and white piece.
I knew Bridget Rileyâs work a bit before going into the exhibition because she was one of the visual artists you learn about when you study 20C music, and so I had seen a few of these op art pieces, but I never expected an illusion to work so well on such a huge scale.
I saw the major retrospective at the Heywood. Spending a few hours with all the 60s illusion paintings really does do a number on you...
The works that most pleased me most were the later colourful wall paintings like Rajastan (2012). Painting directly on the gallery walls makes for an interesting copyright / art-as-property type question. I guess her team has to repaint them wherever they are shown and must oversee their destruction too. Feels like there could be a Star Trek transporter glitch type issue and whoops, we now have two Rajastan (2012)'s.
Bridget Riley is an absolute master! I saw that exibit too and it actually got me into making generative art (Riley isn't generative art, but there's some obvious similarities).
I always found it fun that she really wasn't happy with how that 3d piece worked out, so went back to flat canvas for the rest of her career. I'm with you though, I thought it was amazing.
Here's a great documentary on Riley for anyone with BBC access: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0011psx/bridget-riley...
A fantastic show is up now at Buffalo's AKG (https://buffaloakg.org/art/exhibitions/electric-op), including work by Bridget Riley. She had a solo exhibition at AKG in 1990.
These are neat. I'm reminded of Claude Mellan's face of Christ from 1649. This also uses a single continuous line, but he was carving the line by hand into steel!
https://www.gallery.ca/magazine/your-collection/a-familiar-f...
These reminded me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-filling_curve
Math meets art, this is exactly what I thought too.
Was always fascinated by Hilbert curves.
A goldmine of Logo exercises, where the goal would be to write the shortest program for a given drawing. All of them could be classified by Kolmogorov complexity.
Or approximate a drawing with transformations of an Iterated Function System.
At first glance they remind me of PCB antennas. I wonder what their RF characteristics would be if you were to just try them out for fun.
what if you lasercut it? would it fall apart in two pieces? :)
I definitely want to make reproductions, but nothing as crude as printing them. I think I found my first project for the toy 3018 cnc I put together!
Just wow. You have to take into account the year these were made and its zeitgeist... It took a different mind to come up with those back then ... nice ... well done ... thats the importance of artists .... they are the ice breakers .. the rest just follows ...
Yes, as per usual the momentum of the majority remains rooted in the low desires of the self.
What are "high desires"? Those of the eusocializing egregore? Yeah, it'd say that.
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