- 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. Wacław deserves more recognition.
- Thanks to this post and a comment referring Iterated Function System, two polish people are interestingly connected in the field of the subject: Wacław Sierpiński (Sierpiński triangle) [1] and "Wacław 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...
by seanhunter
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- 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
- 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...
by laowantong
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- 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.
- 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.
- These reminded me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-filling_curve
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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 Wacław’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.
- 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.
- It would be so much fun to make replicas of his art on the "Etch A Sketch" [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etch_A_Sketch
- Really cool that something like this is at the top of HN
- Such articles on the top is why I love HN
- >Wacław Szpakowski (1883–1973). Linie rytmiczne (2016)
https://youtu.be/xqXNIzJWEzc?si=_rDa33xBhLeZtZa8
- I enjoyed the article. Never heard of him, despite being Polish. Somewhat reminds me art of Roman Opałka
by taylorius
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- 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.
- Makes me want to break out my pen plotter!
- Perfect art for a classic Etch A Sketch.
by warrenmiller
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- if you like this check out generative plotter art https://old.reddit.com/r/PlotterArt/
- I'd like to get his whole collection in a coffee table book. Anybody?
- I'm into this stuff too
https://www.fleen.org/i40.png
by fitsumbelay
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- thanks to OP for this
by LargoLasskhyfv
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- 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=...
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