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Kandinskii by ~jSepia:iconjSepia:

Categories Digital Art > Text Art > ANSI

©2005-2009 ~jSepia
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I know the title is silly, but "Asciinski" sounds even worse. :lmao:

For those who don't know, Wassily Kandinsky (1866~1944) is a wonderful russian painter, and one of my favourite artists. He is known for his abstract works, where lines, points and other geometric shapes evolve together in a seemingly chaotic harmony. My goal was to create something in Kandinsky's style, but through my own medium, ASCII art. Of course, I'm far from being the genius he was. This is just a rough likeness. I consider it slightly unfinished too.

I did this in two days (not continuously), using PabloDraw. I didn't do any previous sketch, I just started drawing right away after having studied some of his paintings. Most of the techniques used are described in my Solid ASCII Art Tutorial.

This is my entry for the ASCII Art Revolutions contest held by `diamondie. It's going under the Revolutionary Typesets category, just because it's colored. That's also the reason why I placed it in the ANSI section.

As always, you can press Download to Desktop to get the original .ans file. :)

Edit: Thanks to ~DampeS8N for the useful suggestions. I added and refined some of the black lines too, and edited the big purple circle. Added a bit of green in some areas.

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~HippieKing Aug 6, 2005, 9:57:01 AM
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, lovely! :D I love Kandinskii and this really is his style simply interpreted into ASCII, I love it, the different colours are wonderful and the anti-aliasing is supreme. This is in my opinion the best revolution for this reason. Has anyone else ever tried to translate a abstract painters work into an ASCII. Has anyone succeded? Well you have.
My deepest respect and a fav!
P.S
What do you think of Hilla Rebay, you may like her work.
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~DampeS8N Aug 6, 2005, 10:38:38 AM
the yellow line towards the center, it would make the overall piece feel more unified if it passed over the black line.

also... the lil tiny line off the outline of the circle in purple green and dark green. Off to the left, over the purple block outside... I'm not sure why thats there... since it doesn't connect to a black line between the red and purple... I'd like to see a black line the same thickness off it. a space might be the right size.

Just tips, from an abstract art compositional POV

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*diamondie Aug 6, 2005, 11:18:52 AM
Great to see this finally, it was worth the wait! I think the style has translated to ASCII very well. The antialiasing and character palette works well as always, though I still think asterisk isn't the best choice and the p seems somewhat odd as well, though not bad. I really like that curvy line.

I agree with ~DampeS8N about the yellow line, not sure about the other thing because it isn't entirely clear to me what he/she means.
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~Victorie Aug 6, 2005, 11:46:25 AM
This is awesome. Again I'm inspired. I wish I had advanced critique to give you, but being as new to the art as I am, I have none. You've made me more determined to master this, though. It just seems like it would be so satisfying to see a piece like that completed. :)

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~tharglet Aug 6, 2005, 11:55:05 AM
Neat piece of ANSI art :D Very pretty.

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~jSepia Aug 6, 2005, 12:33:11 PM
I've seen abstract ASCIIs, but none that tries to imitate a famous painter. I've yet to see a cubist or surreal ASCII too. Very few ASCII artists have tried original styles, but I can cite an example.

Allen Mullen, an ASCII artist known for his colored, solid-style ASCII art, did an ASCII representation of The Scream, a famous expressionist painting by Edvard Munch.

That's the only example I can remember. Talking about styles, the scene is full of graffiti-style ASCIIs. I could also mention calligrams, a form of poetry spread by the french poet Guillaume Apollinaire; it's still practiced as poetry and it qualifies as ASCII art.

I think I'm going off-topic already... ^^; Sorry for that. To answer your question, I don't know of any other abstract ASCII that follows a painter's style.

I loved Hilla Rebay and I can't believe I didn't know about her art before. :) Thank you so much for that suggestion.
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~jSepia Aug 6, 2005, 1:38:24 PM
These are really good suggestions, I think that's what was wrong in this piece. :nod:

I agreed with both and I applied them, as you can see. Thank you so much! :)
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~DampeS8N Aug 6, 2005, 1:43:33 PM
you know what is really funny.... diamondie agreed with me. Yet on 2 separate occasions she yelled at me about not knowing ANYTHING about art, design, or Ascii.... funny.... the best part is... she has no memory of me... either time.

oh well... I guess she takes critiques on other's work a lot better than she does on her own...

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!ladyfirari Aug 6, 2005, 3:29:13 PM
awsome colors there pal.. *sighs* been away for a while adn I guess I was just surprised to see that I have a lot of things to read.. *groans* well off I go just wanted to say keep up the great work ^__^
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