Ebook: The Structure of Paintings
Author: Prof. Michael Leyton (auth.)
- Tags: Computer Graphics, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD CAE) and Design, Media Design, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities
- Year: 2006
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wien
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Michael Leyton has developed new foundations for geometry in which shape is equivalent to memory storage. A principal argument of these foundations is that artworks are maximal memory stores. The theory of geometry is developed from Leyton's fundamental laws of memory storage, and this book shows that these laws determine the structure of paintings. Furthermore, the book demonstrates that the emotion expressed by a painting is actually the memory extracted by the laws. Therefore, the laws of memory storage allow the systematic and rigorous mapping not only of the compositional structure of a painting, but also of its emotional expression. The argument is supported by detailed analyses of paintings by Picasso, Raphael, Cezanne, Gauguin, Modigliani, Ingres, De Kooning, Memling, Balthus and Holbein.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Shape as Memory Storage....Pages 1-42
Expressiveness of Line....Pages 43-72
The Evolution Laws....Pages 73-128
Smoothness-Breaking....Pages 129-199
Back Matter....Pages 201-237
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Shape as Memory Storage....Pages 1-42
Expressiveness of Line....Pages 43-72
The Evolution Laws....Pages 73-128
Smoothness-Breaking....Pages 129-199
Back Matter....Pages 201-237
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