Slant One by Auro Lecci

Artwork

Fine white diagonal lines form geometric bands against a purple-brown square in Auro Lecci’s Slant One. — Auro Lecci, Slant One (1969), shown in a 2015 digital print after the original colour plotter drawing. Artwork © Auro Lecci. Image © Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Given by the artist (E.2662-2016). Image source.

The Italian artist and self-taught programmer, Lecci used Fortran and a pseudo-random number scheme to generate exact, linear forms inspired by Constructivism’s “machine aesthetic.”

Image is copyrighted by Auro Lecci and courtesy of The Anne and Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.

Sources

collections.vam.ac.uk

People

Auro Lecci

Movements

computer art, Constructivism, generative art

Filed under

Ideas: Constructivism, generative art, machine aesthetic, randomness
Technologies: computer art, Fortran, programming, random number generator
People: Auro Lecci
Works: Slant One
Places: Italy

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