Pure art becomes a game of fixing integer values of shape on a grid
The diagonal lines on the graph paper are replaced by the diagonals of a rectangle with integer sides. Henri Matisse "White and Pink Head" Pablo Picasso | VUE DE NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS (1945) 1) Now that I have found a model that easily measures diagonal lines by integers, I will summarize what a complete visual grammar would look like. 2) The shapes seen in the artwork are far simpler than those in nature. Through a priori artistic sense, curves become arcs and straight lines are either diagonal, vertical or horizontal. These lines are supported by a hidden structure that gives them harmony and balance. 3) If you think of the screen as a grid of pictures, all the diagonal segments become diagonals of a rectangle made of the grid and can be classified. The smallest diagonal segment is the diagonal of a single grid, and the largest diagonal segment is the diagonal of the screen. 4) I showed that Mondrian's painting models, which are made only of rectangles, are made...