1/4 "Barbarians" by Jacek Markusiewicz impresses me like no other recent work of #GenerativeArt has.
The images of majestic mountain slopes and neatly arranged fields – with occasional buildings strewn in between them – at first feel strangely detached and bland, thanks to a distant, aerial point of view and bleached, bright colours. Yet the way the landscapes are unexpectedly interrupted by smooth, deep, geometrical gashes appears alien and out of place.
Having "Metakinetic" by @julien_espagnon plotted with acrylic markers and hanging on your wall must be quite awesome. I love the bold shapes and vivid colours!
"Light Beams" by @jzlabs (Jason Ting) is an enchanting exploration of light and colours that might well have been inspired by the light installations of Dan Flavin. The iterations that I like most are the ones with contrasting colour temperatures, and #35 sticks out to me as especially harmonious.
The images of "Aithérios" by @zjorge can appear to show a lift or a fall, can be sparsely populated or tightly packed, but they all convey a sense of translucent weightlessness. Iteration #260 feels special to me in the way it highlights two of its elements in bright white.
"unTie #2", an abstract digital artwork. Two dissolving streams of geometric particles reach towards a point near the center of the canvas. The particles are blue and yellow, the background is dark like space.
"unTie #82", an abstract digital artwork. Concentric circles of small particles that resemble ripples on a surface of water are near the center of the canvas, going out from a layer under it are streams of small particles undulating towards the upper and lower edge of the canvas. The background is divided into rectangular areas in bright yellow, red and light blue, resembling stacked cargo containers.
"unTie #66", an abstract digital artwork. "unTie #82", an abstract digital artwork. A colourful cloud of small particles is near the center of the canvas, going out from a layer under it are streams of small particles undulating towards the left and right edge of the canvas. The background is divided into rectangular areas in pale yellow and green.
The outputs of "Arrokoth" by @qotonana are dynamic and slightly confusing in a thought–provoking way.
Watching the swarm–like shifting and meandering of the displayed particles in live view has an unexpectedly organic vibe, despite the reference to astronomy in title and description.
"Fabricated" by Evan Greene feels physical and palpable (I love the way the materials are rendered), yet the virtual sculptures' compositions appear to be about to tip over any time or sometimes just couldn't exist that way.
A great exploration of what we expect our world to be like.
The way that the outputs of "Blokkendoos" by @piterpasma mirror the underlying code in their polished, complex precision masterfully displays how #GenerativeArt is… well, art!
1: "Blokkendoos #480" (owned by bored_bear)
2: "Blokkendoos #412" (owned by @raptornews)
3: "Blokkendoos #38" (owned by sheltronica)
4: source code of "Blokkendoos"
"Blokkendoos #412", an abstract digital artwork. Complex composition of rectangular and oval shapes of various colours, depths and sizes carved into and protruding from a white, matte surface. The shapes are overlapping and the underlying grid is irregular.
"Blokkendoos #38", an abstract digital artwork. Minimal composition of two elongated shapes, one an oval, one a rectangular, protruding from a silky, black surface, on a layer below it is a nearly circular oval shape carved from the same surface. There are three small circles scattered over the surface. The edges of all shapes are brightly orange. View of the source code of "Blokkendoos" with syntax highlighting. There are no line breaks that would structure the code, resulting in a screen full of expressions, variables and numbers.
"Forma y orden" by Juan Rodríguez García takes a refreshing new approach to the exploration of order and chaos that seems to be an ubiquitous theme of #GenerativeArt.
The stylized images resemble a match between Andy Warhol's art and IKEA assembly instructions and make us translate abstract concepts into everyday life. Don't some of the outputs remind you of people waiting in your doctor's office or at the district office?
Forma y Orden #19, an artwork consisting of dissolved grid of stylized, tilted and layered folding chairs, the outlines of human figures sitting on most of them in various orientations.
Forma y Orden #121, an artwork consisting of a grid of 2 x 2 stylized, identical folding chairs, the outlines of human figures sitting on three of them in various orientations.
Forma y Orden #71, an artwork consisting of a dissolving grid of uncountable, stylized, identical folding chairs in various sizes, states of rotation and distortion, the outlines of human figures sitting on about half of them in various orientations.
"formless-z" by Costa Chung (OneRocket) feel both familiar and strange in the images' discomfortingly imperfect resemblance of humanoid figures.
The random shapes that the algorithm generates look like distorted, hunched over bodies of alien astronauts, and more often than not, the number of limbs exceeds what we'd expect to see in humanoid creatures.
I love how "Orbitals" by Mallory combines bold colours and big shapes with retro riso print vibes.
The images consist entirely of circles of different sizes, and despite their minimal basic structure, the outputs feel varied from each other and complex on their own. The duotone palettes make them feel at the same time colourful and restrained, and the worn textures are the cherry on the cake.
A #DigitalArt pairing that I recently added to my collection:
"Highway, Beach" by Dennis Chilas (DDDC) from his new #AIArt collection "Tales From Above" and "Nausicaa #28" by @qotonana, recently released on #fxhash.
I like how the colours and shapes work together. The rusty orange that increases the impact of both images isn't a tone you come across frequently, and it makes both works special.
My fellow Atelier writer @deuspoeticus took a deep dive and wrote an article about it that I recommend you to read. Here, I want to show my favourite outputs from a project that I feel didn't get the attention it deserves.
A beautiful pairing of two special pieces of #AbstractArt that I found today:
Die Maschine: Schnittdarstellung #5 by Geoffrey Crayon and A @wblut postcard - 231125 by @wblut
Both impressed me with a high level of detail and the amazing technical aesthetics; they now are part of my current semi–chronological gallery of recently collected artworks.
Constraint by Eric Andwer is a visual commentary on the hard-to-find balance between structure and freedom. The variety and beauty of the images is mind blowing.
I created an annotated gallery on Deca where I shared some of my thoughts about it and compiled my favourite outputs.
"Fx(hash) Generative Birthday Candle #175" by @pifragile and "Victorious shade" by Juan Zapata are both images of celebration.
Although the soft gradients of the former appear as the opposite of the later's blocky, pixelated composition, the images are visually connected by their use of colours.
"Glass ceiling" by @natehillphoto and "Hospital room #34" by Shirasu Nejio make me feel like we're seeing the same turbulent sky in both. Nate Hill's liminal landscape and the situation Shirasu Nejio describes in his artwork's description make both appear even more haunting through this juxtaposition.
1/4 A Pile, To Be Sorted by @spinkdinky (Chris McCully) combines a visualization of life's complexity with a metaphorical pursuit of clarity into captivating, vibrant, abstract pieces of art.
The artist dedicated it to his father and, in doing so, paid tribute to a piece of advice that he gave: To tackle life's challenges one small step at a time.
It looks like color bleeding cities ! by Valentin Goulmy has some nice palettes and a wide range of complexity that you can play around with. It's a parameter based mint on #fxhash and still open (just don't try a custom palette, that will result in a dud).
These iterations of Pipe Dream by @tezumies and The most important meal of the day by @uluiq12 go along so well!
I like how both show vibrant colours and clean shapes, yet approach it from quite different perspectives (literally). Both are among the first additions to kimp, the next chapter of my semi–chronological galleries.