The Medium Wrecks the Message: Describing Artistic Style Using a Relational View of Art
The Medium Wrecks the Message: Describing Artistic Style Using a Relational View of Art
Author(s): Jocelyn Ireson-PaineSubject(s): Visual Arts, Logic, Aesthetics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Artistic Style; Aesthetic Balance; Influence of Medium; Category Theory; Art as Transformations;
Summary/Abstract: I formulate style as “compensatory triangles,” describing how naïve depictions get rebalanced by “pictorial techniques” to compensate for information loss and interference from their medium. I also formulate the information lost, perhaps because of interference, when translating between styles. The formulations may be helpful in teaching. They, and proposals for further mathematisation related to deep-learning style transfer, are inspired by category theory and a relational view of art.
Journal: Estetyka i Krytyka
- Issue Year: 62/2021
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 117-149
- Page Count: 34
- Language: English