[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.