CENTURY #999

CENTURY is my homage to paintings and drawings from the twentieth century and the countless hours I’ve spent looking at them. The references span the origins of concrete and non-objective art to color-field painting and minimalism. The strongest direct reference is a series of pictures created by Ellsworth Kelly in the 1950s where he cut his paintings into pieces and reassembled them in different orders. CENTURY creates a distinct picture for each unique transaction hash, and you can “cut” and “reassemble” it in different ways by pressing ‘1’ on your keyboard. Press ‘2’ to put the slices in the original order. These are landscapes; they look best large and in motion running as live code.
Token
Art Blocks
Token ID
100000999
Token Standard
ERC-721
Edition
1/1
Medium
HTML with JavaScript
Dimensions
variable
Artist — REAS Studio (reas.com) / Feral File (feralfile.com)

Exhibition Notes

Los Angeles–based artist, educator and programmer Casey Reas cites as influences the minimalist, Color Field, nonobjective, concrete and conceptual art movements of the last century and explores them through the 21st-century lens of software.

History