Tour de France is a traditional multistage bicycle race. It has more than a hundred years long history, but the stage order is new every year. I chose the 1995 Tour de France. I didn’t draw stages one by one, it’s not the race diagram, but there’s some numeric analogy still:
| Five high mountain mass-start stages | Markers of five different colors (green, blue, black, red, orange) |
| Three medium mountain mass-start stages | Three different block lengths (single, double, triple) |
| Nine flat mass-start stages | Nine different combinations color × size (including white single) |
| One team time trial | One black single block |
| Three individual time trials | Orange, green and blue single blocks |
| Two rest days | Two white single blocks |
I was listening the eponymous music by “Kraftwerk” while drawing. Figure outline represents wheel on turn, straight road and peloton.
The drawing shows the direction to two future decisions: the inclination angle tends to the main diagonal and just changing black to violet would make the five-color spectre.
Several years later in The Russian Museum I met the painting «Movement in space» by Mikhail Matiushin, made in 1921 or earlier:
2019.04.30. I presented this work to Dmitrii Zaretskii.
markers, symmetry