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• Cones
and Tetrahedron Eve, 1983
67
1/2 X 86 1/4 inches
Cel-Vinyl Acrylic on Canvas
Computer Aided Painting (PTG 720)
Included
in the one-man exhibition:
Ronald Davis: Forty Years of Abstraction,
1962–2002
Butler Institute of American Art
Youngstown, Ohio
October 6 - November 17, 2002
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Cones
and Tetrahedron Eve, 1983 was
one of the first Computer Aided Paintings that I painted,
using a sketch that I did on my Apple ][e computer. I used
a very low power opaque projector to transfer it to the canvas,
so much of the painting was painted in the dark. It was included
in the book, Digital Visions, and was shown
in a number of museums as an example of "Computer Art", including
the IBM Gallery in NYC.
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Caption
reprinted from the book by Cynthia Goodman, Digital Visions, 1987,
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, NYC; Everson Museum of Art,
Syracuse, NY.
23. Ronald Davis, Cones and Tetrahedron, 67 1/2 x 86
1/4 inches.1983
This Painting is from a series of paintings based on computer-generated
imagery. To recreate the image on the computer screen, Davis
used an opaque viewer that could project the compositions onto
canvas, then he painted them. As early as 1968, when he submitted
a proposal to the [Los Angeles County Museum's] Art and Technology
project, Davis was interested in using computers to help him
design geometric [3-D] configerations for his paintings.
Hardware: Apple ][e computer with 64 K of
Ram Memory. Software: Graforth.
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