Art experiment - Combination of squares and noise

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I want to examine how you could combine order and disorder to make a beautiful image. And for that I will do some experiments. This post is a continuation of my "order and disorder" series but it works to read it on its own.

1. I use black and white squares, a well-known pattern with a lot of order. I will combine it with a noise to "destroy" the order, in an attempt to make the image more interesting.

2. I'm failing - The result feels boring - maybe too simple and predictable, even though I do several attempts:

3. I think about and try to get a feeling about what might work. I get a feeling and add a pair of smaller squares into the picture:

4. I have succeeded (At least thats what I think) I do not know what really happened, I do not know why it helped add the smaller squares. I do a test to see if it's the small squares combined with the big ones that work, or if it's the small squares in combination with the noise that is the thing that makes it work:

 
5. No - These images are also feels to simple and predictable, there is not much of something that captures one and makes you want to watch more. But at least they are more interesting than my first try. None of the three base images are so good on their own or in a combination of two and two, all three are needed and I do not know why.

Thoughts of why a combination of the three are "needed":

There is probably something in the combination that will make the image more complex. Perhaps some kind of beautiful blend of something simple that goes into something complex without any clear transitions. The big squares provide large simple frames to "hold on". The noise gives a confusion, loss of connection (order), but it also gives a movement and liveliness. Maby the small squares bind them together - they have a order very similar to the big squares but the size of the squares are more like the "spots" in the noise.
/ Matilda Lorentsson

Art - Thoughts - Combinations of Order and Disorder

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In my last post, I reviewed how I think that we often feel more drawn to images that show much order rather than those who we feel are very disordered. And that if we combine order and disorder, they can be even more interesting than those with "just" order (I don´t know if total order or disorder is possible to illustrate).

I will show the images again (so you don´t have to read / remember my last post):

When I paint, make designs or when I look at art, I often think about what makes a good combination of order and disorder. Here is an example of a work of art that many recognize: The Vitruvian Man, made by Leonardo da Vinci (photo taken by  Luc Viatour / https://Lucnix.be ) 

There is a lot of symmetry and order in the image - a circle, a rectangle and how the writing follows lines. But there is also a disorder in the image - the paper's brown spots and shades, the man's shadows and hair. But also the text - even if the rows are mostly straight lines, the different shapes of the letters and the different lengths of the words gives it a geometric disorder (something that applies to almost all text).

I think that the way in which order and disorder has been balanced in this image may be a reason to why I'm drawn to this artwork. But I also feel that I don´t know at all, or maybe I can´t say in words why I think this is a beautiful image (the same applies to everything that's beautiful), but often it's fun to contemplate it.

/ Matilda Lorentsson

11june2018