(3) Free curves drawn using tools

Figure 665 represents a non-camera-photograph drawn using a newly created special tool. First, photographic paper is placed on a desk in the darkroom, and a loosely curled up a thin aluminum board with a high reflectivity is used to make a pipe-shaped. A flashlight is swung gently from a diagonally upper position. Light reflects on the aluminum board, and the unevenness of the reflected light is created. Then, smooth free curved lines are drawn on the paper.

The materials used in the work in Figure 666 are noodle-shaped shock-absorbing materials for packing. They are sticks of Styrofoam curved by heat treatment. Therefore, though the shapes look similar, they are different from each other.

4-- Application to art and design

The sketches or rough sketch of Mattisse and Picasso are really beautiful. The lines used there are vivid and natural. Especially, when a human body is used as a motif, volume is richly expressed. At the same time, a beautiful feeling of the body with life is vividly expressed by the movement of the lines. A line drawn in one breath is fluent.

Arp skillfully handled shapes surrounded by flowing free curves using a method which is different from that of Mattisse. Although they are common in their simplicity, it is said that the shapes of Arp have a feeling of primitive lives like an amoeba against the wealthy feeling of Mattisse. There are unlimited examples of the free curves in the field of design and fine arts.
 
 

665 666   667 668   Figure 665: Light traces of a flashlight reflecting inside an aluminium pipe. Figure 666: Photogram using shock-absorbing materials made of styrol. Figure 667: "Space Concepts", by L. Fontana. Figure 668: "A Deformed Circle that Touches a Polygon from Inside", by R. Mangold.

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