Work1852-65, oil on canvasFord Maddox Brown (1821-93)
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Art for Society?
“Britain is full of teachers pretending to be “artists”, “Artists” pretending to be French Philosophers, curators pretending to be revolutionaries, etc., etc. Now bourgeois art teachers pretend they are socialist artists-It is the same recurring problem: the historical conditions they are really in are ignored in favour of the historical conditions they want, need, believe, feel intimidated into supporting, feel as though they ought to be in.”
– Art & Language, “Art for Society?”, in Art-Language, Vol. 4, No. 4, June 1980, pp.8-9. Quoted in http://www.metamute.org/en/Mistaken-As-Red
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composing drawings for draw-something
Stage One
1. Generate a number of points within the image bounding box.
2. Force some points to be on the bounds.
Modify the current figure form generation system to choose from these points.Stage Two
3. Generate lines by joining the points.
Modify the figure form generation system to choose from these lines.Stage Three
4. Subdivide some of the lines.
5. Split some of the overlapping lines.Alternatively create the hull or polygon for the figure and generate forms within it using points on the border, lines between them, and various subdivisions.
Stage Four
Implement various algorithms for consuming the lines and points. From back to front, most simplifying to most simple:
Voronoi or region growing. (Use a flat coloured plane sometimes.
Convex hull.Closed polygon.
Open polygon.
Line set.
Polyline.
Line.
Point.
Don’t use every technique in every drawing. Increase tightness of line following from back to front. Colour by plane.
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Two Crescendos
” What about it, what about it, what about it ?
Oh, I’m pissing in a river. “
– Pissing in a river, Patti Smith.” I’m gonna be somebody, I’m gonna get on that train, go to New York City,
I’m gonna be so bad I’m gonna be a big star and I will never return,
Never return, no, never return, to burn out in this piss factory
And I will travel light.
Oh, watch me now. “
– Piss Factory, Patti Smith.
