visual grammar

  Among the nude drawings by Matisse that can be found through image search, I have found images with a high degree of perfection. It turns out they were made to illustrate a collection of Mallarmé poems. Let's create an arc circle model.      Matisse [Odalisque] 1934      Matisse [Odalisque] arc-circle model It has the perfection like archaic idol sculpture.          Matisse [Le Sonneur, plate eight from Poesies de Mallarme arc-circle model      Matisse [Le Pitre Châtié, plate four from Poesies de Mallarmé] If one dares to look at it casually, it is a female body that cannot be described as beautiful. If you look at it as a body, its outline is cut off. Viewed as lines, it gives a sense of harmony and balance. It's a quality that you'll understand once you get to the level where you can appreciate Cezanne's unpopular bathing paintings.

  Humans were thinking properly before they explored how to think. Similarly, humans were already logicians before they tried to become logicians.    Etienne Condillac   Genius painters used proper techniques before exploring how to paint. Here is a drawing by Picasso whose production method can be analyzed.     Picasso Variant of Head of a Young Girl III (2nd supplementary plate) from the illustrated book Non Vouloir, 1942      arc-circle model The largest blue-green circle forms the hair on both sides, the bridge of the nose, and runs across the top and bottom edges of the screen. The second largest red circle forms the left cheek and shoulder. The orange circles that make up the eyebrows and both jaws, which are the most numerous, are tightly organized into a mesh pattern. The fourth green circle forming the eyes and mouth intersects in a spiral. It is easy to see that it is ...

The idea that we can't understand art until we see the real thing is still circulating. But ninety-nine percent of the works I have seen are reproductions. If we accept that design (image) is the essence of art, by looking at art books and digital images, we can find the answer to what art is.  In formal art theory, digital images are also works.      from [Blog "Unified Art Theory"]   Genuine works of the print collection  in museum collection are not readily available to see. Kiyonobu's name is well known but his work is not understood. One of the reasons is that most people don't realize that reproduction is enough to enjoy seeing. It seems that there are few people who try to find it in digital images.   I found three digital images which are related.        The middle one seems to be most balanced.         Torii Kiyonobu　「 Actor Sawamura Kodenji as a Woman at the Time of the 　　　Tanabata Festival」 It ...

In the previous blog "Cézanne, Seurat and Beardsley arrived at the same technique", I wrote two conditions of modern art from the level of formalism: Constructing with only arcs of a few circles of different sizes creates harmony. Then the circles can be used to create a balanced structure. 　    Picasso “Female Nude with Arms Raised” 　 1907 in the Sainsbury Collection    Picasso “Female Nude with Arms Raised” 　 arc-circle model According to the explanation of the museum that owns this work, it is a study for Les Demoiselles D'Avignon, But if you look at the work itself 、 this painting is more complete. Comments without a structural model don't make much sense.  The model reminds me of Seurat's "Study of Model".    Seurat "Study of the Model"    Seurat "Study of the Model" arc-circle model.

     Woman Carrying a Vase | The Metropolitan Museum of Art 17th century From the beginning my interest in art have been in seeing reproductions as the original works cannot been seen often.   I may have passed by this work in the museum as I lived in New York for over twenty years. I have several books which contain the reproduction of this work as I used to go to Strand bookstore every day,        arc model      large blue circle arc model      red circle arc model I have already made the models of o Raphael, Cranach, Sharaku (Hokusai), Seurat, Cézanne, Picasso, Klee, and Matisse. Since this model is quantitative, it should be possible to create it automatically with AI. Predicting the near future, automatic model making of all artworks will enable to reveal the reason why the great works are. Besides w e can make masterpieces that was never made.

Matisse's interest in Cezanne's bathers' paintings is well known. Let's see when the influence appeared in the work. The first candidates are "Game of Bowls" and "Music(study)".  They are on very linear drawings   Matisse "Game of Bowls 1908     Matisse "Game of Bowls large circle-arc model              　　　　　　　　　　　　 Matisse "Music(sketch)"  Matisse "Music(sketch)" large circle-arc model Comparing the two models, the difference in their structure is clear. One of the necessary conditions to be a masterpiece is to be unique. The basic structure of large circle shows the uniqueness of a work. Some of the great circles  in the second model are aligned along vertical or horizontal lines. Cezanne painted a few prepared Bathers' paintings. This painting in Basel Museum is well known in reproduction.    Cezanne "Five Bathers" 1985-87 Kunst Museum Basel  large circle-arc model The model shows that Cezanne might be...

 Last time, I showed that the arc technique was used in Cézanne, Seurat, and Beardsley's nude forms. Mondrian, who did not paint nude forms, found the same technique in abstracting the curves of a tree.   I googled "mondrian tree" and found this image mixed with many Mondrian imitations. There is no explanation for this image, and it is a work that I have never seen in any art books. The painting is so well-balanced and harmonious that I am convinced that it is Mondrian's work. I can certify this authentic by making models      arc model Six circles are enough to make the model, which create harmonious effect. Extending the arcs, make arc-circle model.      arc-circle model The largest blue circles make the basic structure. It turned out that Mondrian used the same arc-circle technique, alongside Picasso,   Matisse, Klee, Leger, Modigliani, etc.