[HN Gopher] Geometric line-art of Waclaw Szpakowski (2017)
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Geometric line-art of Waclaw Szpakowski (2017)
Author : bookofjoe
Score : 341 points
Date : 2024-11-29 22:54 UTC (1 days ago)
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| rdtsc wrote:
| These reminded me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-
| filling_curve
| alkyon wrote:
| Math meets art, this is exactly what I thought too.
|
| Was always fascinated by Hilbert curves.
| yu3zhou4 wrote:
| I enjoyed the article. Never heard of him, despite being Polish.
| Somewhat reminds me art of Roman Opalka
| laowantong wrote:
| 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.
| sorokod wrote:
| Or approximate a drawing with transformations of an Iterated
| Function System.
| emsign wrote:
| 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.
| nakedneuron wrote:
| what if you lasercut it? would it fall apart in two pieces? :)
| btbuildem wrote:
| 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!
| seanhunter wrote:
| If you like this sort of thing, there is a whole movement called
| "Op Art" 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 Riley's 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.
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op_art
| benrutter wrote:
| 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...
| cproctor wrote:
| 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.
| Fluorescence wrote:
| 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.
| gigatexal wrote:
| Really cool that something like this is at the top of HN
| ziolko wrote:
| It would be so much fun to make replicas of his art on the "Etch
| A Sketch" [1].
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| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etch_A_Sketch
| ndsipa_pomu wrote:
| I wonder how his art would have been affected if he'd had
| access to an Etch-A-Sketch?
| MrMcCall wrote:
| I wonder, did anyone ever make one of those with an "erase"
| button?
| smetj wrote:
| 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 ...
| MrMcCall wrote:
| Yes, as per usual the momentum of the majority remains rooted
| in the low desires of the self.
| warrenmiller wrote:
| if you like this check out generative plotter art
| https://old.reddit.com/r/PlotterArt/
| Agraillo wrote:
| Thanks to this post and a comment referring Iterated Function
| System, two polish people are interestingly connected in the
| field of the subject: Waclaw Sierpinski (Sierpinski triangle) [1]
| and "Waclaw 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
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| [2] https://archiv.ub.uni-
| heidelberg.de/artdok/8576/1/Rohlfs_Art...
| taylorius wrote:
| If it were me, I'd be putting a piece of graph paper underneath,
| with a light behind it, and using it to trace the grids.
| mkl wrote:
| They're all on tracing paper, so he almost certainly did do
| something like that.
| roland35 wrote:
| Makes me want to break out my pen plotter!
| martyvis wrote:
| It reminds of the art of M.C.Escher in the sense that it is
| driven by a mathematical mindset, yet goes beyond mindless
| repetition. This artist and M.C. Escher would have loved having
| access to computer drawing program I think.
| Witosso wrote:
| Such articles on the top is why I love HN
| openrisk wrote:
| In our non-digital past talented creators would be obscure
| because discovery and distribution was broken. In our digital
| future talented creators will be obscure because discovery and
| distribution will be broken.
|
| Rants aside, thats quite a gem to surface here.
|
| Wondering whether for single line drawings there is any analog of
| aperiodic tillings.
| gilleain wrote:
| There is Prof. Felix Flicker's research in 'Hamiltonian Cycles
| on Ammann Beenker Tilings' which is relevant I think.
|
| https://www.felixflicker.com/research
| LargoLasskhyfv wrote:
| Why did the structured wall tilings from the interieur of the
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennis_House by Frank Lloyd Wright
| come to my mind?
|
| https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Ennis+House&t=ffab&iar=images&iax=...
| bookofjoe wrote:
| >Waclaw Szpakowski (1883-1973). Linie rytmiczne (2016)
|
| https://youtu.be/xqXNIzJWEzc?si=_rDa33xBhLeZtZa8
| coldcode wrote:
| 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 it's not that popular commercially today outside of
| NFTs. Repetition and variation can be powerful tools in art.
| Waclaw deserves more recognition.
| jevogel wrote:
| Beautiful work. What's your technique for making these?
| diego_moita wrote:
| He wrote a blog explaining it: https://thecodist.com/my-art-
| and-color-after-tiling/
| Fluorescence wrote:
| 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=...
| ks2048 wrote:
| Great work! One of my favorites people should check out is
| https://x.com/beesandbombs
| indigoabstract wrote:
| Wow, some of them look very artistic, I think they would look
| quite at home on shadertoy too.
| swayvil wrote:
| Me too
|
| http://fleen.org
| ValentinA23 wrote:
| beautiful art, thanks for sharing. I thought you would enjoy
| this too (animations)
|
| bleuje.com
| omarrr wrote:
| 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)
| proee wrote:
| Perfect art for a classic Etch A Sketch.
| sigil wrote:
| 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...
| fitsumbelay wrote:
| thanks to OP for this
| swayvil wrote:
| I'm into this stuff too
|
| https://www.fleen.org/i40.png
| swayvil wrote:
| I'd like to get his whole collection in a coffee table book.
| Anybody?
| medhir wrote:
| I was in NYC around the time this exhibit was put together and
| was told by a friend to go, referencing this article.
|
| I don't think I've ever connected so strongly with a gallery
| exhibit as I did for Waclaw's artwork. Something about how
| intricate the works with just a single line. It was such a
| serendipitous moment that I won't soon forget.
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