About

Franz Marc (1880 - 1916) was a German Expressionist and member of the ‘Blaue Reiter’ group for which he edited an almanac together with Wassily Kandinsky in 1912. Members of the Blaue Reiter never lived to experience the global reach of the web but the way it can both bridge and transcend cultures and transmit various media would undoubtedly have been useful to their aims.

The code was handcrafted to create hundreds of individual vector graphic shapes, using lines, arcs, Bézier curves, etc., with fill colours and gradients as close as possible to the original painting. Various custom algorithms were written to cycle through an almost infinite combination of randomised varieties on the original.

This process takes the original images further as a remix, as well as offering an ethically respectful human-computer tribute to the original, as well as a foil to AI-generated ‘thefts of style’. These hand-crafted web-based digital versions of Marc’s pieces are therefore intended to evoke the spirit of the Expressionist movement in a modern medium.

Currently the two Marc pieces used are:

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The Artist

Fania Raczinski