One week of introduction to Processing- full day classes and a new exercise each day.During the first day, drawing and basic programming concepts (iterations and variables) were introduced. The day’s task was to choose a painting (by a favorite artist or by one of the artists proposed: Gustav Klimt, Paul Klee, Theo van Doesburg, Wassily Kandinsky and to recreate it with. The piece could be a variation of the artwork provided or a copy of it. For final codes and images, please see below.

STUDENT WORKS

Agata Muszynska

Hideaki Takenaga

Jesper Thøger Christensen

After the first day of introduction to Processing the homework was to redraw a selected artwork by programming in Processing. I choose the artwork named ďMonument in Fertile CountryĒ  by Paul Klee.Analyzing the artwork I choose to build the sketch from layers.1. A grid of lines with a height relating to each other by a whole number2. A layer of quads with only two parallel edges3. A grid of lines on top that dissolves the quad belowThis setup could be evolved further including more variation, quads and intelligenceh

http://openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=17172

Jorge Orozco

Nikola Marincic

This work is a identical digital copy of “Theo van Doesburg, Composition IV”. Its value lies not in programming skill necessary to “paint” it, but in exactness of the copy of this very simple hard-coded program to the original artwork. Artist’s concept is transmitted into few lines of code, and still remains the same when translated into classical medium (printed in the same size as original painting). This experiment shows that process of thinking and creativity is not always dependent of the expression medium.

http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=17150

Magda Osinska

The task was to choose a painting by a favorite artist or by one of the artists proposed: Gustav Klimt, Paul Klee, Theo van Doesburg, Wassily Kandinsky and to recreate it with. The piece could be a variation of the artwork which was provided. I rethought about Wassily Kandinsky‘s – Several Circles painting. I used one geometrical rule: random intersecting ellipses and keyPressed function to draw freely the picture each time.

http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=17214