Experiment 16 – Robert Delaunay Rythme study

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This work is based on a painting by Robert Delaunay, Rythmes 1934.

Rythmes 1934, Robert Delaunay
Photo credits : © Georges Meguerditchian – Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI /Dist. RMN-GP

Circles are a recurrent pattern of the artist. He uses it to study the relationship between the arrangement of colors and their visual perception.

I was curious to see the result of a generalization and a systematization of this painting. The script I designed use a few main parameters:

  • the number of large circles (3 or 4)
  • the angle of the axe
  • the thicknesses of the different circles of the composition.

100 draws are available in Fxhash.

I used 8 different colormaps, with one that was extracted from the photo of the painting, and other colormaps from specific photos, to check if these patterns can be used to transcribe any colored atmosphere. Here is 16 draws of the result: