Project 1, Abstract Recreation

For my project I decided to recreate Kazmir Malevich's Avtoportret v dvukh izmereniiakh (Self Portrait in Two Dimensions) created first in 1915. My Work is linked, the original is here.  I chose this work to begin with because I know nothing of processing prior to this class (I am currently taking 301 at the same time) and thought that this piece was complex enough to get the basics down.  This piece struck me because it involved multiple shapes and colors, as well as the alignment of the corners of shapes as well.  For colors I would rate it a 7 out of 10 because without these colors the work would be very boring to look at, just a bunch of placed images on a page.  However I would give the placement of these shapes a 10 out of 10.  The big dark square in the upper center of the page ties everything together.  What I mean is the corners of other shapes lie in an almost perfectly straights line in respect to other shapes on the page, as such I used the square for placement of my other shapes inside my code.  As a Computer Science major, I like order, yet this work was categorized as abstract.  I guess what I like most about this piece is how everything ties together neatly, yet leaves room for interpretation.  I believe this is the reason that this work was selected for MOMA's site.  I see it as a gateway to explore further connections that are not directly implied to be seen.