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Pixel Grids

Images as discrete grids of colored squares (and some antecedents and variations)




Georges Seurat: La Parade, 1888



Georges Seurat:
La Parade, 1888 (Detail)



Georges Seurat:
La Tour Eiffel, 1889



Otto Freundlich:
Composition,
1930



Otto Freundlich:
The Unity of Life and Death,
1936-1938



Leon Harmon:
Abraham Lincoln,
1973

        

Ryszard Winiarski: Area 142.14, Area 142.15, Area 142.17 (1973)



Ed Manning: Blocpix:
Ralph Nader, 1975

Salvador Dali: "Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea which at Twenty Metres Becomes the Portrait of Abraham Lincoln," 1976




Tom Geismer:
Geometric Grid,
1978



Chuck Close:
Self Portrait, 1983



Chuck Close:
Lucas II, 1987



Chuck Close:
Maggie, 1996


Links and references:

Artboy: The History of the Pixel.

Artboy

Leon Harmon: "The Recognition of Faces." Scientific American, November 1973.

Remko Scha: "Computer/Art/Photography." Perspektief 37 (1989), pp. 4-10.



Directly related work:

Halftone  Halftone Art (Lichtenstein, Polke, Jacquet)      

ASCII  ASCII Art (Peterson, Knowlton, Demiaux, Cosic)   

PhotoMosaics  Photo Mosaics (Silvers, Blake)