{"id":6058,"date":"2015-10-29T21:58:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T01:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=6058"},"modified":"2017-03-04T10:39:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T15:39:30","slug":"13-rectangles-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=6058","title":{"rendered":"13 Rectangles: The Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

After viewing part of a video series on Foundations of Color<\/a>, I picked up on the painting 13 Rectangles<\/em> by Wassily Kandinsky<\/a>\u00a0where I left off<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This time I tried playing with color groupings:<\/p>\n

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And then I wondered about trying to do realistic scenes:<\/p>\n

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And then I wrote out the rules for the game that I’m creating.<\/p>\n

It’s called “13 Rectangles” and you can play it at four levels, depending on the challenge you want.<\/p>\n

It has the appeal of Pictionary, but you don’t have to be able to draw.<\/p>\n

Levels<\/h4>\n

Student<\/strong>: The only rule is that you have to use 13 rectangles. Can be any color, size, or placement on the page, including skewed.<\/p>\n

Amateur<\/strong>: You must use 13 rectangles that include\u00a0the colors Kandinsky used. Placement on the page can only be at right angles to the edge of the canvas.<\/p>\n

Pro<\/strong>: You use 13 rectangles in the same color, proportion and size Kandinsky used. Placement must be at right angles to the edge of the canvas; some but not all pieces must\u00a0overlap.<\/p>\n

Kandinsky<\/strong>: You use 13 rectangles in the same color, proportion and size Kandinsky used, at right angles, with eight of the\u00a0pieces overlapping each other.<\/p>\n

Challenges<\/h4>\n

Challenges are the concept of what you try to portray in your game painting. They would be at levels of difficulty to match the painter-player’s level.<\/p>\n

Students<\/em> get easy subjects like “houses” or “city.”<\/p>\n

Amateurs<\/em> get intermediate subjects like “ocean” or “dancing man.”<\/p>\n

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Pros<\/em> get abstract concepts like “passion” or action ideas such as “breaking glass.”<\/p>\n

Kandinsky<\/em> players have to come up with compositions for\u00a0more complex ideas like “jazz” and “modernity.”<\/p>\n

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Scoring<\/h4>\n

This is a social game. You can play in teams like Pictionary, scoring a point if your teammate guesses the concept. Or you can play it like solitaire, just to stretch your creativity.<\/p>\n

Individual players can post photos of their paintings online, where other players score them based on originality, use of color, and clarity of interpretation.<\/p>\n

How to play<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Prototype is in development. Wanna play? Contact me.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Day 115: The penny is a 2015, for the year I copyrighted the game “13 Rectangles.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After viewing part of a video series on Foundations of Color, I picked up on the painting 13 Rectangles by Wassily Kandinsky\u00a0where I left off. This time I tried playing with color groupings: And then I wondered about trying to do realistic scenes: And then I wrote out the rules for the game that I’m … read more 13 Rectangles: The Game<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[67,35,355,416,347,160,356],"class_list":["post-6058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improvisation","tag-67","tag-art","tag-color","tag-game","tag-kandinsky","tag-painting","tag-pieces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6075,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058\/revisions\/6075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}