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Systematizing Art Styles

Ryan Nein 57,587 2 months ago
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My links: https://linktr.ee/Ryan_Nein Check out my comic "A Man Who Watched The World": https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/121099559 Notes on the video: The purpose of this video is to do a synchronic study of art rather than a diachronic one. This is rooted in structuralism. Because of this, I speculated about the history of the heart mark knowing the history was different. The point was to communicate that marks can change over time. An alternative example is the Pepsi logo which transitioned from iconic to symbolic when a bottle cap design became its own mark. I considered removing the dimension of old to new but I thought if I did that people would ask about it so I left it in. The video is not intended to support a view of art history as progressive and every era of art contains a range of expressions. Individual art pieces contain juxtaposed elements that can be a range of styles so most pieces do not fit in a single point but should be thought of as a range. I based positioning on averaging the elements out.

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