Trim.plt
2002
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
2002
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Trim.plt is a 2002 by Hans Dehlinger, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing is called Trim.plt, made by Hans Dehlinger in 2002. It's a drawing, which means it's made with lines and marks on paper. Hans Dehlinger explores the possibilities of plotted lines in his art, using a mechanical drawing device controlled by a computer. You can learn more about this kind of art by looking up the technique of cross-hatching.
The artwork *Trim.plt* by Hans Dehlinger, created in 2002, is a black-and-white plotter drawing that investigates the expressive potential of the plotted line. Dehlinger, trained as an architect and working in algorithmic art, focuses on the mechanical precision of pen plotters, using simple monochrome lines to highlight their machine-generated origins. The piece is titled, signed, and dated in pencil at the bottom.
Read the full account in the museum source.
German draftsman Hans Dehlinger made line-based drawings that feel like maps without borders.
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