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Random distribution of 40,000 squares using the odd and even numbers of a telephone directory, 50% blue, 50% red
François Morellet, 1960
MoMA
For this work, Morellet divided the canvas into a grid of forty thousand squares , then instructed his wife or his sons to read numbers from the phone book out loud. Moving from the top left corner of the canvas to the bottom right, he marked a square for each even number and skipped a square for each odd one. Upon reaching the end, he colored the marked squares blue and the blank ones red.
#math #geometry #chance
François Morellet, 1960
MoMA
For this work, Morellet divided the canvas into a grid of forty thousand squares , then instructed his wife or his sons to read numbers from the phone book out loud. Moving from the top left corner of the canvas to the bottom right, he marked a square for each even number and skipped a square for each odd one. Upon reaching the end, he colored the marked squares blue and the blank ones red.
#math #geometry #chance