ENGLISH

The Structure of Paintings

By Prof. Michael Leyton (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Wien
Year
2006
ISBN
978-3-211-35739-2, 978-3-211-35742-2
DOI
10.1007/978-3-211-35742-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2419378 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
237\227
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
CAE) and Design; Media Design; Pattern RecognitionComputer Graphics; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD

Description

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.

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