Design drawn on paper larger than the picture: Harunobu's [Momijimai ], Matisse's [Pink nude, Seurat's [Cancan] Harunobu's [Autumn leaves dance] geometric structure 4

Initially my interest was  to analyze modern artworks, which was expanded to all the types of art.

  I found the drawing plan can be extended to the outside of the picture.

                                Matisse [Pink Nude]

   Matisse [pink nude]  outside picture circle- plan

   The Picture that protrudes from the picture creates a balance effect in      Matisse's [Pink Nude]

                              Seurat [Cancan]

   Seurat [Cancan] outside picture circle-plan

   "The meaning of arched border painted around Seurat's "Cancan"

This model is very convenient to compare artworks.

It is easier to see the structures of the circle that makes the arc

 if there is a space outside the picture.

This is the outside- picture- circle model.

I made the model for [Momiji-mai].

 

             Harunobu [Momijimai] outside picture circle model

This picture belongs to the type "kimono-figure with umbrella".

In the collection of Ukiyo-e paintings, a set of this type can be found.

I pick an illustration from the blog: "Who is Sharaku (Hokusai?)" V, in which Haruo drew a picture of Sharaku (in terms of painting method, not style)

This shows that many lines have the same bent as the umbrella's bones.

I made this illustration as the example of stencil technique.

After I extended the blue arcs

                            Hokusai [Toumegane] extended circle-model

There is too much technical advance in this work from the paintings of Shunro era.

From Shunro’s last paintings to [Toumegane], Shunro(Hokusai)  hadn't painted a bijin-ga for nearly ten years.

However, it is understandable if  Sharaku era came after Shunro era.

Two techniques from the Sharaku era are used for this.

A)   Use an umbrella for the basic structure.

 [Kameya Tadabei of the second generation Ichikawa Koraizo and Umekawa of the first generation Tomisaburo Nakayama]

B)   Many uses of points to bundle circles.

 [Kyoriwa and Seikegawa]

                                    

                      Sharaku [Itikawa korazou  Nakayama Tomisaburo]

         outside-picture-circle model

                                       Sharaku  [Kagamiiwa

              Sharaku [Kyoriwa and Seikegawa]

I tried to find who started this device.

So far Kiyonobu's  is the oldest.

   Kiyonobu "Hayakawa Hatsuse and Nakamura Shichisaburo" outside-picture-circle model

In this way, at the structural level, works can be compared regardless of the motif.

It can be concluded that Sharaku is a great experiment, and Sharaku is Hokusai.

 

Kiyonobu "Hayakawa Hatsuse and Nakamura Shichisaburo" 1702

Harunobu "Autumn leaves dance" 1766

Sharaku Ichikawa Koreizo Nakayama Tomisaburo 1794

Hokusai "Fuyu no Nakuse Telescope" 1801-04

 

Dance movements of Harunobu’s「Momijimai], comparing with Matisse's [Dance 2] and Seurat's [Cancan]

In the blogg [The masterpieces like Harunobum,ｓ [Momiji-mai] have ingenious compositional devices  1 circle model], I showed the arc circle model.

 

Arc is atom of art.

The smallest unit of art work is defined as an arc.

A circle, which is an extension of an arc, can have various structures.

As compositional device, circles are divided into three groups according to their size.

A group of large circles form the foundation structure,

A medium group makes  movements.

Small group unify the details.

This time, I will explain the technique of making  movements by intersecting medium sized  circles.

Harunobu  [Momijimai]  circle arc model (medium sized circles)

It is common to find a paper stencil pattern method that uses circles that overlap each other on the screen bundle the circles.

With some experience some artists noticed the device to control the movement by making intersections.

 That is why Matisse executed Dance II after Dance I.

Matisse  [Dance 2] arc circle model (second largest circles)

Seurat , at the end of his career, he was interested to construct large compositions.

He needed to  invent new device for the large canvas.

   Seurat  [Cancan]  circle arc model 

Now I know why some art works are so interesting and the others are not.

every harmonious masterpiece is made of arcs Harunobu [Momijimai] 2 ark model

 

“If you remove the colors and break the ukiyo-e into pieces, what remains is a group of various black and white sections and curves of various shapes. Take one out and arrange it on the original paper in various ways, and I think that what you get there will be very similar to the picture of some Futurist paintings.

(Terada Torahiko [Ukiyoe no kyokusen])

If you make a hole in the cylinder and blow it, you will hear a sound.

This is the smallest unit of sound

It is natural to make a second hole to make a different sound.

This discovery would have happened regardless of time and place.

Similarly, if the smallest unit of shape is a uniform curve with a bend,

It happens that you are conscious of the curve that looks different from the first curve.

This was the beginning of conscious artistic creation.

Let's make the arc model of "Autumn leaves dance" using eleven different circles.

                 Harunobu [Momijimai] arc model

Let’s take out the arc models made so far from the old blogs.

                                  Vasalery [Pebble series]

Woman Carrying a Vase | The Metropolitan Museum of Art　[Persian painting was made using the same technique as Ukiyo-e, an abstract painting by Vasalery ]

                        Persian painting

Woman Carrying a Vase | The Metropolitan Museum of Art　[Persian painting was made using the same technique as Ukiyo-e, an abstract painting by Vasarely ]

                              Shunei [Kasiwado Jinmaku]

Comparison of Shunrou(Sharaku)and Shunei’s techniques

Matisse [Dance 2] arc model

Matisse's DanceⅡhas ingenious syntactic structure for harmony  [Rethinking modern art]

   Cezanne [Six bathers (lithograph)]

How modern was Cezanne syntactically?

                            Picasso [Reclining nude 32058]

Picasso's drawing method with unit  in 1932

               Sharaku [Kagamiiwa Seikenzan]

    Seurat  "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jadde "

Seurat's method to compose "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jadde " in Barnes Foundation 1 / harmony

Seurat [Grand Jadde] arc model with two types of circle (upper left quarter)

Seurat's method to compose "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jadde " in Barnes Foundation 1 / harmony

                                  Albers [Spiral and ovals]

Cezanne's apple and Albers's curvilinear composition

                               Seurat [Cancan] arc model

The meaning of arched border painted around Seurat's "Cancan"

                            Cranach [Venus]

The beauty of nude is geometrical 1 /Cranach and Seurat

                            Seurat [Model]

                 Moronobu [Mikaeribijin] arc model
【Masterpiece always has ingenious geometrical structure   [Mikaeri Bijin] by Moronobu】

　　　　　　　　　　　　　Arp

【Arp's shape is very formal】

                           Hokusai [Manga melura]

[ [Who is Sharaku?] Ⅳ　Sharaku and Hokusai used the same method: twelve circle method]

                         Sharaku  [Miyakoza face part]

[ [Who is Sharaku?] Ⅳ　Sharaku and Hokusai used the same method: twelve circle method]

                    S0tatu  [Hakuzouzu]

[Who is Sharaku?] Ⅴ　Analysis of the method of composition can solve many art problems　 　 Shunro drew Shraku's picture

   Ancient Chinese jade [ Tiger]

All you have to do is looking at  masterpieces to find out what art is.

Masterpieces are easily recognizable like a high mountain.

With these examples, it seems unlikely that the painter would use arcs to compose with intuition alone.

           

The masterpieces like Harunobu‘ｓ [Momiji-mai] have ingenious compositional devices 1 circle model

 

Harunobu [Momijimai]

There is an expression that "music is designed on the score".

Masterpieces of plastic art are also designed.

This time, I will analyze the structure of Harunobu's "Autumn leaves dance".

As many as 57 painters are listed in the volume [Ukiyo-e Retsuden], series of biographies.

As I look through the pages dozens of times, I can find works that are clearly interesting.

I can sort masterpieces easily by taste judgment.

It seems for me that all the masterpieces have interesting structure.

The structure creates the sense of balance.

Firstly I make circle model.

Harunobu [Momijimai] circle model

The umbrellas are not depicted but designed with circles of different size.

With additional circles of different size, the figure is designed.

Four different-sized circles are passing the center of the picture: dark red, pink, green, blue.

I already found the pictures with the same device.

Hokusai [Osiokurihatousennozu] circle model

The intersection of the four circles is expressed with black cross, which locates on the left side of the high wave.

Sharaku(Hokusai) [Raiden Kachoyama]

There is an intersection around the belt of the sumo-wrestler on the left . 

By the way this model making made me convince that Sharaku is Hokusai.

[Persian painting was made using the same technique as Ukiyo-e, an abstract painting by Vasarely ]Woman Carrying a Vase | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

      left Moronobu Mikaeribijin

      center Woman Carrying a Vase | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

      right  Vasarely pebble series

Disregarding art history and looking only the image at taste judgment, they  look like the same kind.

About Moronobu and Vasarely I have already written blogs: 

[ "Beauty Looking Back", the structure of modeling beauty.] and

 “Pure abstract painting conditions (proportional is an integer ratio) / Vazarely [pebble series]”

So I use the same models from the blogs.

 

                    Moronobu [Mikaeri bijin]  circle cross model

This was made up of a circle and its vertical and horizontal diameter unit before devising the framed circular cross model.

                  Vasarely  [pebble series] arc-circle model

the Persian painting in the middle, which is well known because it is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

First, let's make an arc model. 

                          Woman Carrying a Vase | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

                           arc model

                         Woman Carrying a Vase  arc circle model

Circles of the same size have their respective roles.

Largest circle (dark red)　 hanging shawl and lower part of the dress

the second largest circular (pink-green)　 dress, one of which passes through the center of the screen.

The third largest circle (blue) 　the largest movement and is used from the center to the top of the screen.

The fourth largest circle (pink)　 he largest circle, with a sharp bend.

 

Stravinsky was a man who coolly saw the end of music history and dared to use anomalous techniques to explore the few possibilities that still remain.

Schoenberg, on the other hand, resolutely tried to advance the history of music, even if he stepped into the wilderness where no one would listen to him anymore.

(Western music history Akeo Okada)

 Understanding modern music requires at least two prior knowledges;

A) sufficient notated works at hand.

B) Hanslick's theory “the content of music is the structure of sound"

Likewise artists need these condition;

A)) reproductions.

B) formal theory “The content of art is form”.

Even though these conditions are met, the current art seems t0 be stagnant.

Let me suggest  what went wrong.

 According to Alfred Bar's diagram, which was once popular,

abstract painting is the final form of representational painting, and is developed into 

geometric abstraction and non-geometric abstract painting.

 This theory neglects the fact that representational works give us the same artistic sensation .

We can see a thing in two ways: sign-seeing and shape-seeing.

Visual Grammar is about shape-seeing.

The innate ability to see a shape is that we tend to see it in simplified contour:

The succession of arcs.

The way to see a contour curve is not analogue but digital, which makes innate Visual Grammar.

If all works are visually recognized as shapes, then a geometric model of that shape can be made.

then we will be able to get a bird's-eye view of the whole.

We can compare by looking at digital images that are not related to the times and places. (cf. the blog "Upside down jade at the Met")

Only when we know how much ingenuity has been made so far

We can see if there is a future in plastic arts.

 

Comparison of Sharaku( Shunrou)and Shunei’s techniques

 

                          Shun-ei                 Shun-ro                  Kiyo-masu

Muscled male body had been good motif in Japanese art.

The left and the center pictures are by Katukawa painters and the right one is by Torii Kiyomasu.

The positions of the ring and standing positions of the two wrestlers are almost the same ,　which suggests that these two artist worked competitively.

Left work by Shunei is inferior to the painting by Shunrou on the center in terms of harmony and balance.

Still, there is an irresistible line of fun that reminds us of the style of early ukiyo-e painter Torii Kiyomasu on the right.

The picture of Kiyomasu on the right is free and succeeds in creating a unique shape because there is no real model, but the highest technique.

These personal impressions can be quantified by the model.

             Shun ei [Sumo e] arc model

              Shun-ei  [Sumo e]  framed circle cross model

 Purple units of Mawashi belts form the basic structure.

Smaller circles form groups and are locally distributed:

The blue circle is on the lower left side, the vermilion is on the upper right, the green circle is on the lower right, and the green circle is on the lower left.

Shunrou [Kimenzan Dewanoumi] circle-arc model

The largest blue circle forms the foundation structure.

The third largest red circle is distributed throughout, which has an overwhelming harmony effect.

Shunrou [Kimenzan Dewanoumi]

the smallest unit of shape is an arc.

 an arc is the part of the circle.

The circle has vertical and horizontal diameters and can be framed by a square, which I call a framed circle-arc unit.

When the units overlap, the balance effect can be easily obtained.

Just by looking at two sumo-e

It can be said that the two Katukawa school artists had used the same technique.