Untitled – Twelve Blacks and Four Silvers
Leonor Maia
Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, Portugal
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Untitled – Twelve Blacks and Four Silvers consists in a visual interactive game-like adaptation of the work Twelve Blacks and Four Silvers from Jesús Rafael Soto, an artist most known by his kinetic sculptures.
Through the simplification of the shapes present in the sculpture – multiple lines and sixteen squares –, and the use of only blacks, greys, and whites like the original, it was developed sixteen different visual compositions using the program Processing.
The sixteen compositions form a single work, much like the sixteen squares of Soto’s sculpture create the visual of it. The overall project intended to reflect the inspiration to it, as well as creating a digital and ludic representation of the kinetic and optical illusion art.
Leonor Maia
Leonor Maia is a 20-year-old student who is currently attending the 3rdyear of the first degree in Communication Design at Faculdade de Belas Artes in Universidade do Porto. She was born in Porto and has always had interest in the world of art from a very early age. Design has been her recent main focus of interest; nevertheless, she has always developed interest in the various dimensions of art. The inspiration from art as a whole motivates her, as well as her projects, since she always had the curiosity for learning and exploring new areas and means.
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