Abstract art icons: Gunta Stölzl's textile art (part 2)

[cimorene]

Previous icons of Gunta Stölzl's textile art were posted yesterday.

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Comments

[viggorlijah]

Hey genuine question because I really like these but the colours are weirding me out in a way I can’t articulate - are they artifacts fuzzy or intentionally fuzzy? I’m not sure if I’m ready to change up my current one from you but the zig zags are calling me. I love my red circles of bafflement though.

[cimorene]

The fuzzy ones that are fuzzy allover are watercolors and they just look like that. But there are a couple with unsharp mask that sharpens edges and fuzzes the area in between, like 1, 11, & 15.

[cimorene]

It's hard to say with the zig-zags, because tiny diagonal lines like that have a tendency to get weird when you shrink e image a lot. You have to basically use a blur or redraw the lines manually at the new size probably to remove the jitter? And I don't really know what the fine details would look like on different screens end resolutions.

[cimorene]

Sorry, I didn't mean to answer at such length but I've thought about this myself. The triangle bits are the most visually engaging in a lot of her works but the hardest bits to shrink successfully because of the quality of the original photos a lot of the time. I went and experimented some more as a result of this comment using the biggest source image I found, Five Choirs jacquard hanging (1928), but I didn't get a lot farther. I have another day's worth of icons to post though so.