Inspiration work - Tauba Auerbach
Born in San Francisco in 1981, Tauba Auerbach is a visual artist that creates works in many different disciplines such as painting, artist books, photography and sculpture. Her work can be described as operating ‘in the gap between conceptual art, abstraction and graphic art’ (Smith, 2006). Many of her works draw inspiration from her interest in maths and physics as she explores the limits of structures and systems of logic that create new visual possibilities. Below is an artwork from her most recent collection ‘Grain’ which is created with Acrylic on Masonite with Baltic Birch cradle.
processing sketch
I chose to base my sketch on Tauba Auberbach’s Acrylic painting from the collection ‘Grain’. My aim was to abstract and simplify the shapes and aesthetic that I saw in the painting. I achieved this using ellipses and a quad. As the painting gives off the feeling that the blue and red section is almost dripping down the canvas which I abstracted by creating a dynamic image where the ellipses change in shape every loop.
Code
void setup() {
size(500,800);
frameRate(5);
}
void draw() {
background(198,179,173);
//putting the background setting here means the background is drawn again each loop
fill(55,11,160);
//colour settings for the blue quad
noStroke();
// takes away the outline of the quad
quad(50,10,450,10,400,790,100,790);
//dimensions of the blue quad
{
fill(198,179,173);
//colour of the pink circles to match background
for (int x = 10; x < 450; x = x + 30) {
// ellipses start at x coordinate 10 and increase by 30 untill the x coordinate reaches 450
for (int y = 10; y < 900; y = y + 50) {
// pink ellipses start at y coordinate 10 and increase by 50 untill the y coordinate reaches 900
ellipse(x,y,random(5,20),30);
//randomness is added to the shape and size of the ellipses
}
}
}
fill(226,36,74);
for (int j = 80; j < 440; j = j + 30) {
// red ellipses start at j coordinate 10 and increase by 30 untill the j coordinate reaches 440
for (int l = 20; l < 800; l = l + 50) {
// ellipses start at l coordinate 10 and increase by 30 untill the l coordinate reaches 800
ellipse(j,l,random(20),random(40));
//randomness is added to the shape and size of the ellipses
}
}
}