Expressiveness of Line

Abstract

A crucial phenomenon will now be introduced. When one looks over the diagrams produced for artworks on p28–40, something is immediately striking: The diagrams exhibit a considerable amount of the emotional expression of the works. This is a strange phenomenon. The diagrams were intended for one purpose only: to show the process-history recovered from the shapes. The arrows in the diagrams represent the actions that occurred in the recovered processes. Nevertheless, it is clear that, when one maps out the process-histories, one is mapping out the emotional content of the paintings. In fact, I will now propose the following basic law.