Otto Freundlich had a special place in the Bateau-Lavoir group of artists when Cubism was created, at the beginning of the 20th century. He will follow his own path toward non figurative art, by granting a paramount importance to each element in the global architecture of its paintings.
His work remains unfinished. Refugee in the south of France during the second world war, he was denounced to the nazi and deported to the Lublin-Maïdanek camp where it was assassinated in March 1943.
Before the First World War Otto Freundlich worked on the restoration of the stained glass windows of Chartres Cathedral. The stained glass art will profoundly influence his works, and perhaps it’s this experience that helps him to invent, in the thirties, the geometric figure at the art of its architectonic writing: the half-pointed arch.
This form generates lines of force in three directions and allows Otto Freundlich to build, from 1937, with a very small vocabulary, rich and diversified compositions, using only half-pointed arches and quadrilaterals.
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The architecture of its compositions have two main features: the composition seems not random, and no repetitive structure, no systematic pattern, no algorithmic system emerges from the artwork.
The composition, a geometric abstract painting, appears natural. This global characteristic, created by the influence of each element – and particularly the half-pointed arch – allows the interactions between colors to fully express themselves.
The architecture of the painting is fully at the service of color, and does not distract the viewer.
Occurrences based on the vocabulary invented by Otto Freundlich and presented on Artgorithm are generated by an algorithm that uses the principles described by Otto Freundlich. This algorithm makes it possible to highlight the importance of the half-pointed arch: occurences without this specific figure have a random and systematic aspect that harms the interaction between colors. This algorithm also allow to multiply the series of occurrences based on the same pattern.
Rosace II, occurrence 2017 ruses the architecture of Otto Freundlich masterpiece created in 1941.