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    This document discusses concepts of organization, structure, and emergence in art and geometry. It provides diagrams and explanations of geometric themes like the golden rectangle, root-2 rectangle, and tessellations. Artists discussed include Jacques Villon, Gino Severini, and Juan Gris. Villon's method involved structuring paintings around colored squares and planes. Severini's works incorporated geometric themes like the circle, root-2 rectangle, and combinations explored in his Montegufoni frescoes. The document examines how simple rules and arrangements can lead to complex, unpredictable structures in art.

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    Stefan Arteni

    The Painting:
    Determinism And Stochasticity

    SolInvictus Press 2008


    Before an object is defined as any particular thing it is a
    cluster of random elements arranged in a unique order.
    All else is an imposition of a learned or artificial
    categorization.
    www.ashejournal.com/eight/alamantra.shtml

    Organization and Structure

    …a system's organization specifies a category,


    within which there may be many specifically-
    realized instantiations. Specific systemic entities
    exhibit more than just the general pattern of their
    organization -- they consist of particular
    components and relations among them. The
    'particulars' of a given system's individual realization
    make up its structure…

    Humberto Maturana (1975) notes 'organization'


    comes from the Greek and means 'instrument'…A
    systemic unity's organization is specifically realized
    through the presence and interplay of components
    in a given space. These comprise the unity's
    structure…Maturana (1975) points out the word
    'structure' comes from the Latin meaning 'to build'.

    Randall Whitaker Jacques Villon, the root-2 theme


    A jigsaw or tiling puzzle: non-regular tessellations or tiling patterns
    (tilings composed of non-regular polygons ) and the superposing of tessellations

    Emergence is the process whereby by means of a small number of simple rules - such as first organizing the
    surface into abstract areas with the help of the Golden Section and then constructing local-area networks within
    these areas - one creates new unpredictable and surprising structures. The organization is realized through
    structure…Form-ing is selectively contingent... relationship of parts to whole and of self-similarity. Robert Rosen
    defines a formal system as syntax, symbols (in the Peircean sense), and rules of symbol manipulation. It is a
    matter of mereotopological (parthood and connectedness) contingency: speaking about areas (the two-
    dimensional regions or continua), the transformations allowed before the space is changed; speaking about the
    image, the transformations of an image conceived as a diagram that may gain or lose parts and yet preserve its
    identity. The flexibility of structure is the basis for the complexity of parts, wholes, boundaries, interpositions and
    overlappings, nested regions, contact, separation, and transition (passage). But what of inner boundaries
    combined with passages, a device used by El Greco? In this case of intrinsic vagueness, there is a degree of
    arbitrariness about any particular choice resulting in trapping regions as inner boundaries – a sort of inner
    vectorial graph - and creating indeterminate outer boundaries. Such an influence is visible also in Villon’s and in
    other Western artists’ work, a fact showing that to remain in the background, which is the case for the procedural
    memory of Byzantine practices, is not synonymous with unimportance. Procedural memory is also known as tacit
    or implicit knowledge.

    Figurative synthesis is responsible for the genesis of a determinate representation. ‘Schematism’ specifies the
    conditions for recognition as well as the topological invariant within the abstract building…

    Deleuze formulates the image as a “mobile assemblage”. This allows for shifting conglomerations of elements –
    each image is contingent and evolving. Any figurative elements - re-cognizable configurational elements – are
    grouped in clusters within the variable layout of the abstract areas that fit together like pieces of a puzzle. By
    means of color-scheme, placement, and linking, natural spatial and dynamic categories are destabilized. Emerging
    patterns convert image data into pictorial equivalents - fiat entities, that is, created entities - and construct a
    pattern of configured non-emptiness and voids, an intense simultaneity.

    Stefan Arteni
    [http://www.stefanarteni.net/writings/Emergence/Emergence.html]
    Golden Rectangle in the square

    [Diagram by Charles Bouleau]

    Leon Battista Alberti’s musical ratio


    diapason or octave (double square)
    Golden Rectangle
    (Paysage)

    Paul Sérusier: French standard canvas formats


    The root-2 Rectangle and
    Golden Rectangle compared.

    Armature of the surface (Jay Hambidge, The Elements


    of Dynamic Symmetry, Dover, New York, 1967):

    Continued subdivision
    of a root-2 rectangle
    into similar figures, with
    a ratio of two.

    Continued subdivision
    of a root-2 rectangle Paul Sérusier’s figure format or
    into similar figures, with double coupe d’or (double golden
    a ratio of three. section).
    A. Armature of the surface
    B. Phi theme
    Daniel Robbins Editor, Jacques Villon, C. Rabatment of the shorter sides
    Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University,
    Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1976 The diagrams suggest also the
    possibility of superposing the various
    themes.
    Jacques Villon’s method

    “First, I build up two squares,


    one on the right and one on the
    left…Once the squares are done, I
    give each of them a color. For
    instance, the left-hand square could
    be red, the right-hand square blue.
    I also choose a color for the picture
    as a whole. Let’s say it’s going to be Rabatment of the shorter sides
    yellow. This choice of color [diagram by Chales Bouleau]
    constitutes the basic harmony and
    represents three planes to me. The
    red left-hand square is the
    foreground, the yellow surface is the
    middleground, the blue is the
    background. All these colors act on
    each other according to their place
    in the picture, and their
    planes…Now, each of [the local
    colors] is affected by the color of its
    corresponding plane in my structure.
    So the [objects in the] foreground
    will be affected by the red…”
    Jacques Villon in Yvon Taillandier,
    Jacques Villon: de la pyramide au
    carre, in XXe siecle, May-June
    1959.
    Juan Gris (Jose Victoriano Gonzalez)
    Jacques Villon
    Jacques VILLON (1875-1963) "Les
    Bucoliques“. Five plates. Each about
    20x48cm. Work written by Paul Valéry for
    Scripta et Picta in 1942-44 for a book
    envisioned by doctor A. Roudinesco. The
    images were drawn on stone by Jacques
    Villon. Printed by Mourlot.
    Gino Severini
    Preparatory study
    by Gino Severini

    Diagram by Piero Pacini


    (Gino Severini, Dal cubismo
    al classicismo, Marchi &
    Bertoli, 1972)
    Root-2 rectangle,
    diagram by Gino Severini
    (Gino Severini, Dal cubismo al
    classicismo,,Marchi & Bertoli,
    1972)
    Study for a mural
    (Photos by Timothy Swope)
    Montegufoni frescos

    Combinations
    of the circle
    or phi theme
    (Carlo Cresti,
    Geometria per
    Montegufoni,
    in
    Gino Severini,
    Electa, Firenze,
    !983)
    Montegufoni frescos
    (Photo by Timothy Swope)

    Study for the mural

    Root-4 theme: square and double square


    (Carlo Cresti, Geometria per Montegufoni,
    in Gino Severini, Electa, Firenze, !983)

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