SU_WU-013

Basic Information

Title: SU_WU-013
Artist(s): Hans Dehlinger
Date Created: 2008
Unframed Dimensions: 28.5 x 27.5 in.
Medium: plotter drawing in ink on paper
Inventory ID: Dehlinger-2008-01

Description

signed, titled, dated, and medium written on the reverse of the paper in graphite

excerpt from Extended Art Gallery, Berlin regarding this work:
“A straight line, pen-drawn and executed on a pen plotter, is by default sharp. Likewise, drawings generated from such lines are, by definition, sharp. With his “Unsharp” plotter drawings, Hans Dehlinger explores ways of generating line drawings executed on pen plotters that appear to be wholly or in part unsharp, even though they are drawn with sharp lines. When viewing two converging lines, there is a point called the “minimum separabile” where the human eye stops distinguishing between two separate lines and starts seeing grayscale. It is different for each individual and is also dependent on the distance from which the two lines are viewed. This limitation of human eyesight can be artistically exploited to create “unsharp” impressions from sharp lines. Hans Dehlinger has approached this topic systematically in the article “Line Drawings that Appear Unsharp” (International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics, 2011) and has applied the results to his drawings, in which “unsharp” impressions of different kinds can often be observed.”