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草書 (Grass Script)
Grass script is Chinese calligraphy pushed to its most fluid extreme — characters compressed, looped, and…
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Ma Yuan: Flow
Ma Yuan, a court painter of the Southern Song Dynasty, devoted an entire album to a…
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Giacomo Balla: Art In Motion
Giacomo Balla, one of the key painters of Italian Futurism, was obsessed with capturing movement itself…
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Joe Boruchow
My black and white cutouts are an evolution from when I used stencils to make posters…
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Vasarely: 3D Grid
A flat grid doesn’t have to stay flat, and there are two different ways to make…
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The Form of Sound
Artists have been trying to give sound a visible shape for over a century, and not…
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Animating Sound
Oskar Fischinger’s Studien (Studies) series, begun in the early 1930s, choreographs abstract shapes — circles, bars,…
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Sacred Geometry of Buddhist Art
This painting of Acala, the wrathful Buddhist protector, isn’t built like the mandalas it sits among…
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Past Pixels: Woven Coverlets
Long before anyone called anything a pixel, weavers were already working in grids. Every coverlet below…
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Wucious Wong: Playing the Grid
Wucius Wong was a Hong Kong-born designer, painter, and educator whose book Principles of Two-Dimensional Design,…