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A vast amount of digital images of art works creates a true theory of art

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 Art lovers must have the catalogue of Picasso. And, I guess, that they must enjoy searching digital images of Picasso.  They know "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" is not best work among Cubist paintings. Twentieth-century art theory was incomplete, focusing only on a small number of museum collections. The essence of a work of art is the shape of the image. The original work is not important.   The brilliant idea of ​​[ art in the age of technological reproduction] was never put into practice. A rt studies were limited almost exclusively to works that were featured in the commercial art world. Art lovers who collect and enjoy digital images may be a new breed.   Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" is popuar because it is only a large oil painting at the Museum of Modern Art, but there are plenty of structurally interesting works to be found online. Let's take a look at the two works from 1907. Picasso "Female nude with arms raised/...

Both representational and abstract paintings are made using the same techniques.

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  According to Alfred Barr's diagram, artworks evolve and become abstract. From visual grammar’s point artworks are created for practical purposes, paintings appear realistic at first glance. If we ignore the appearance and look only at the shape, all artworks are various networks. At this level, the viewer tends to see shape as simpler, which means he can recognize the characteristics of shape integrally. And the artist can create shapes handling the integral characteristics logically To summarize, this can be called visual grammar     I will show that these works can be made using the same techniques.                                                               Arp “Two figures”               ...