Art work’s simplest structure is a string

 Art theory has been left behind and has not yet reached the level of science.

The problem is that completely different types of things are being called art.

It's like distinguishing and classifying domestic animals from wild animals.

To create a universal theory, we must find the greatest common denominator.

 

The shape of all works is a network.

The string is a part of it,

and when the ends are joined together it forms a loop.

The string is made up of line segments, and can be straight or curved.

Uniformly curved lines can be replaced with arcs.

Cézanne is considered to be the forerunner of modern art.

Cézanne's Large Bathers paintings probably use grammar intuitively.

so, if we try to create an ideal model that follows that grammar, we will understand the secret of its intrigue.

Let's try making a model of Matisse's work, which is almost in its ideal form.

Matisse "Three one-stroked silhouettes"

Genius draws silhouettes the same way.

Hokusai "Blind"

Durer  

I think it was around 1960 that the phrase "the end of art" became popular.

From the perspective of shape science, it could be said to be the end of art criticism.

Now that anyone can easily see digital images that are hundreds of times larger than the original works,

we can see that art is an illusion created by the works featured in the commercial art world and the critical world that only commentates on those works.