“Artificial Mondrian: Work No.7, 1966
Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art
I have a weird thing for obsessively trying to create art like Piet Mondrian. I posted a couple of them on this blog. The initial attraction was that for someone that struggles to draw, they look pretty simple to knock out. Many metres of masking tape later, I tell you that it is harder than it looks to get something half decent, whether you copy an exact piece of design your own. I was delighted and relieved to recently discover that others have also gone down this rabbit hole . In the 1960s a Japanese IBM employee used his computer programming skills to produce what he termed artificial Mondrians. In doing so Hiroshi Kawano created some of first examples of digital art. When interviewed about his works, Kawano preferred the term Mondrianisation over the name digital art for this new approach. Weirdly, his choice of phrase didn’t seem to take off. #inktonerandcomputerpaper #letsmakelemonade
Pen Paint and Scalpel 