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Nine Colors

A recreation of Ellsworth Kelly's 'Nine Colors' (1951).

Ellsworth Kelly's geometric abstract works are a great jumping off point for generative art, as the style is ripe for reinterpretation and randomisation.

Here I've explored his 'Nine Colors' piece -- originally produced in 1951 -- and extended it so that it supports up 60 columns or circles rather than the original three, using a random set of colours from the original palette.

The colour palette that Kelly used for 'Nine Colors' still feels extremely contemporary, even 70 years after his piece first debuted.

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Other works

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Red Over Green

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Red Yellow Blue White

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A less abstract version of 'Red Over Green'.

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Tulipmania II

A tulip made out of random lines.

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Untitled (14)

A recreation of Richard Caldicott's 'Untitled (14)' (2013).

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Waves

A recreation of A. Michael Noll's 'Ninety Parallel Sinusoids With Linearly Increasing Period'.

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