Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 4: Digital Era (1960s)

1965

Four Self-Distorting Grids by François Morellet

Artwork

A screenprint from François Morellet’s portfolio 8 Trames 0°90°, showing the superimposed-grid (“trames”) idiom that underlies his self-distorting grid works — this is not the 1965 motorised piece itself.
A screenprint from François Morellet’s portfolio 8 Trames 0°90°, showing the superimposed-grid (“trames”) idiom that underlies his self-distorting grid works — this is not the 1965 motorised piece itself. François Morellet, Untitled from 8 Trames 0°90° (8 Wefts 0°90°), 1974, screenprint, 60 × 60 cm. Image: compArt database Digital Art (dada), University of Bremen.

Exemplifying the influence of Kinetic Art on Op art, this motorized, kinetic structure demonstrates that Op Art did not have to solely rely on virtual movement. This also indicates the extent to which VIctor Vasarely’s ideas, particularly from his Yellow Manifesto, influenced Morellet.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.

Sources

People

François Morellet, Victor Vasarely

Movements

kinetic art, Material Generative Art, Op Art

Filed under

Ideas
grid, Material Generative Art, Op Art, perception, virtual movement
Technologies
kinetic art, kinetic sculpture
People
François Morellet, Victor Vasarely
Works
Four Self-Distorting Grids, Yellow Manifesto

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