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2006 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Expressiveness of Line
Published in: The Structure of Paintings
Publisher: Springer Vienna
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A crucial phenomenon will now be introduced. When one looks over the diagrams produced for artworks on p28–40, something is immediately striking: The diagrams exhibit a considerable amount of the
emotional expression
of the works. This is a strange phenomenon. The diagrams were intended for one purpose only: to show the
process-history
recovered from the shapes. The arrows in the diagrams represent the actions that occurred in the recovered processes. Nevertheless, it is clear that, when one maps out the process-histories, one is mapping out the emotional content of the paintings. In fact, I will now propose the following basic law.