Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 2: Modern Era (1850–1949)
1934
Endless Rhythm by Robert Delaunay
Endless Rhythm focuses on geometric shapes and contrasting color, indicating Delaunay’s move towards total abstraction. Delaunay’s work would go to influence the development of Op Art and Kinetic Art, key predecessors of digital art.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
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People
Movements
kinetic art, Op Art, Orphism
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- Ideas
- abstraction, color, geometry, Op Art, Orphism, painting
- Technologies
- kinetic art
- People
- Robert Delaunay
- Works
- Endless Rhythm
Echoes across time
- 1973 · 1024 Colours by Gerhard Richter
- 1965 · Four Self-Distorting Grids by François Morellet
- 1964 · Time Popularizes Op Art
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