Links & Causal Arrows: Ambiguity in Action
Cubism and abstract art by Alfred Barr is historical chart illustrating the development of various movements in arts. Its composition is mainly words and arrows with two colors black and red. The colors differentiate influences of cubism and abstract art, and the size of the text varies as historic relevance. The time line is from top to bottom at the edges.
It summarizes the 45years of art in 80 words and 51 arrows. The arrows play vital role showing sequence and directional that the art was influenced. These arrows draw spectator’s eye movement and controls over the whole story. The reading clearly demonstrates the importance of arrows, what do the arrows mean? By comparing three images one original cubism and abstract art, second deleting all the arrows in original art. Here the second image without the network of arrows is compared to cubist influenced poetry of Guillaume Appollinare’s Calligrammes. The art chart losses its soul, without arrows.
The other art is of Ad Reinhardt’s ‘How to look at Modern art in America’. This was inspired by art chart. Here he composes with words (artists, influences, styles) as tree, starting bottom of roots as base for historical roots of arts and upwards as tree trunk, branches and the leaves. Here the flow of words is in natural order using satirical, critical, joking approach.
The last page of reading has 3 maps, which has varieties of lines clearly telling its own meaning distinguishing its function, services, water features, transportation systems, important boundaries. These lines are clear from context and have greater richness than the art history charts and network drawings.
Today’s class exercise of understanding the object was interesting in manner, how the information could be conveyed in a small number of pages for assembling the product with the use of minimum words, it tells the instructions in diagrammatic manner, the steps, tools and installation process.
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