What do you get if you blend the visual DNA of two mid 20th Century artistic movements into a 21st Century generative art algorithm?

The original ideas evolved by these artistic canons tell very different stories in the history of post war American art. My approach however is more about just stealing from the visual lexicon of mark-making that characterizes these movements ignoring much of the contextual conversations around these works. I’ve never had the intellectual chops to be a conceptual artist. I’ve always been a simple builder of things and when I develop a project I think about it almost entirely in purely visual terms. So, below I hope to reveal something about how I go about deconstructing and rebuilding what I find visually compelling in these two great art movements. <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*E_Zfkm8obvrhQNNLJ4WuuA.png" style="height:369px; width:700px" /> <h2>Primitives</h2> A primitive in generative art is an elementary building block used to construct the main forms in a work. When I started out building my first primitive for Velum I was picturing in my mind something that looked more like a broad paint-stroke. Adding formalized comic-esk outlines to the structures however separated them from the background and gave them a floating quality. Liking this effect I quickly forgot about my first idea of making paint strokes to explore the emerging curtain-like elements and found ways to make them dance. Velum is Latin for curtain. <a href="https://medium.com/@harvey.rayner/what-do-you-get-if-you-blend-the-visual-dna-of-two-mid-20th-century-artistic-movements-into-a-21st-8b993fead835">Website</a>