Leger's [Bathers] and [Polychrome flower] have ingenious structure

 In the last blog I showed that harmonious effect in artwork is due to the use of arcs to make lines.

The easiest method to make a line of arcs is drawing along circle patterns.

Then it is natural to notice the ingenious method to construct the composition using the circles which is the extension of the arcs

     Leger [The bathers] arc model
  
Extend the red arcs to make circles.

     Leger [The bathers] large circle model

Clearly the large circles make the basic structure.
The dark red circle which is almost covering the picture is the most important: having 7 intersections.

     Leger [Bathers] green-arc circle model

 "Polychrome Flower" looks completely different from "Bather" at first glance; however, it is easy to see that both works are made of lines only of arcs for viewers as formal art.

        Leger [Polychrome flower] arc model

        Leger [[Polychrome flower] large circle model

        Leger [[Polychrome flower] green circle model

 "Polychrome flower" is made up of seven patterns and [The bathers] is one pattern. In this way all artworks can be classified.

(I quote from the previous blog.) How modern was Cezanne syntactically?

A picture usually started for drawing animal and human shapes.
The shapes always become simplified.
There are several steps in formalization of drawing.
The artists' awareness of shape develops like these:
  1) A string of line is made of a chain of curves each of which has different            curvature.
  2) A curve with a single curvature is an arc.
  3) The circles which are the extension of the arcs can be easily adjusted to have balance.
  4) The number of circles should be small to be harmonious.
  5) The crossing point(pivot) of the circles is important for harnessing.
  6) The pivots aligning on a line makes unified look.
  7)  The unit of a circle and vertical-horizontal diameters makes easier to control the whole balance.

It is almost unbelievable that Cezanne invented such device.
But any design develops in the same way.
The process can be called embellishment of design.
The syntax is the device for embellishing a design.
Refining the design of a picture is making it ornamental.
This process can be seen in any style of artifact.
There is no difference between artist and artisan.
They use the same syntax.

 These works are up to five stages of the seven stages of ornamentation of form. There may be a painting that reaches seven levels in the Purism type.

Here is a good example of Seurat's supreme technique.

[visual grammar (visible grammar): April 2019 (yukihiko-ikumori.blogspot.com)]








   Cezanne [6bathers] circle-cross model



Appreciation of artwork is one thing but criticizing and creating artwork is another thing.

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