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Perhaps you just aren't thinking hard enough about the rules and patterns of this system. It's absolutely generative. There are pieces, and there are rules. Which shapes show up? How many? How fast do they rotate? How long? What size is the canvas? What color? This is just off the top of my head.


I don't get a 'why' in any of that, though. It's generative, but there seems to be no purpose anywhere in it.


Art does not require purpose


Art requires intent.


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I'm not sure that is true. Maybe you desire intent in your art.


A common definition (he says, being married to an artist) is that you intend what you do to be taken as art. If the artist says it’s art, then it’s art.


Can you intend it after the fact?

If made a toaster, and it didn't work, can I call it art now?

It probably depends on how much art I have already sold..


Ask Marcel Duchamp :)

My original remark about not feeling intent or structure wasn't to say that the work couldn't be art. You could produce an art-creator that chose a random number, produced that number of graphics in random fashion as we see in the generator, and then destroyed itself: that would ABSOLUTELY be an artistic work in its own right.

My concern is that this is seizing upon some of the trappings of suprematism but without the artistic feeling, which means you could take it up a notch. According to Malevich, Suprematism isn't random: check out the Wikipedia article, look at his white-square and black-circle paintings. He has clear preferences for positioning and size of a single shape, and has executed 'em twice, very similarly. In 'Suprematism' there's a pale circle in pretty much the same position and size yet again, and three narrow shapes positioned to suggest a vanishing point outside the canvas top right. There's occlusion of smaller shapes by larger, occlusion of the largest by the frame (which could be done through drawing shapes in rough order of size of their largest dimension) and a color story that involves mostly warmer colors with a strategically placed, foreground, desaturated blue shape (two, in fact, it's got a tiny echo precisely in the same relationship with the centerline of the yellow shape)

Aleatoric generation is a different sort of art. Suprandomatism? :)




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