Introduction
Reas explicitly acknowledges twentieth-century painting, especially Ellsworth Kelly’s cutting and rearranging of paintings in the 1950s. Each hash creates a picture that viewers can reorder or restore using keyboard controls.
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Modernist references and interactive variation
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Work and historical context
Art Blocks dates CENTURY to 2021-06-25, with an edition field of 1,000 works and attribution to Casey Reas. This dates the release, not the beginning of every sketch or development process.
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Modernist references and interactive variation
Reas explicitly acknowledges twentieth-century painting, especially Ellsworth Kelly’s cutting and rearranging of paintings in the 1950s. Each hash creates a picture that viewers can reorder or restore using keyboard controls.
Section sources: CENTURY by Casey REAS
Viewing the work and its documentation
Read CENTURY beside Reas’s earlier Process work to compare how rule-based organisation enters a different distribution setting. This concerns continuing artistic questions, while code and output rules remain specific to each version.
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Art-historical significance and comparison
Editorial interpretation: Artist, algorithm and viewer make choices at different levels, connecting modernist pictorial experiments to executable interaction.
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Artist, algorithm and viewer make choices at different levels, connecting modernist pictorial experiments to executable interaction.
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