The content of art is the method

 

Cezanne "Three pears"

There is no point in drawing three pears realistically.

The colors are monochrome and there is no texture.

Cezanne was interested in the line formed by the three pears.

 This is likely to be overlooked unless someone points out how interesting it is.

The ingenuity of the composition brings out its unique appeal.


Cezanne "Three pears"    arc-circle model

“Art as a method” （Shklovsky ）

Once you realize that the technique is the artistic content, it no longer needs to be a figurative painting.

If you notice digital images to be works of this century, a new art theory will emerge after seeing a lot of artworks.

I found three works by Arp that must have been made as a series.








Arp's works are also very geometrically drawn.

 The smallest unit of shape is a line segment.

The lines drawn tend to be straight lines or curves with uniform curvature which are parts of circles.

A line segment has two ends, and when the ends are connected, it forms a ring.

If the shape of the ring can be changed like a string, the number of protrusions can be adjusted freely.

The smallest unit is a ring with no depressions, and the depressions can be increased infinitely.

The number of concavities and convexities is the same.

You can draw a loop with two concaves using four circles of the same size.


Making it with two kinds of circles, it will look like more pear.
This pear-like shape is made of ten arcs that are parts of five circles.

According to formalism, the artistic content is the drawing technique itself,
When you think of all artworks as geometric shapes, creating them becomes a game.
All shapes may be classified.
And it seems that AI can be used to invent the drawing method.

Then Visual Grammar is the Universal Grammar.

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