Calculated Abstraction

John Carter - Archipelago. 2012

ink, gouache and crayon on paper

Carlos Cruz-Diez

Color Aditivo, 2015

Edition of 150

(from) Kazimir Malevich, Suprematizm. 34 risunka (Suprematism: 34 Drawings), UNOVIS, Vitebsk, 1920

Filmstudie

Sol Lewitt

Peter Struycken, Computer Structures 1-1a, 2a, 3a, 4, Offset lithographs on board, 1969

Hans Richter, Rhythm 21, 1921©Hans Richter Estate

Manfred Mohr

Short video from the Carroll / Fletcher Gallery looks at the career of the pioneering computer artist:

Since the late 1950s, Manfred Mohr, a pioneer of generative and computer art, has been making rigorously minimal paintings and drawings. His work is stringently conceptual, but with an elegant lyricism which belies its formal underpinnings.

During the 1960s, Mohr’s practice evolved from abstract expressionism towards a more hard-edged geometric painting. By 1968, in pursuit of a ‘real rational art’ he had begun to develop a ‘programmed expressionism’ in which algorithms were used to generate art that formalised his vision in a new, logical way.

Edwin van der Heide