| The Elements and Principles of (Design) Composition (E&P) is an instructional model that is used by artists as a guide for the optimization of visual aesthetics. With continued use under the guidance of a master, the user develops an informed, deeply intuitive sense of how to construct psychologically and emotionally evocative compositions. From the view of science, the E&P model is informal and imprecise, but effective! However in our ever evolving technical era, there is a need for formalism and precision.;The present research centered on conceptual color (vs. perceptual color), composition in observation space, and visual mathematical modeling. While the initial investigative efforts centered on color, it became clear early on that modeling shifts in observer perspective was of significant importance. The informally dubbed "observer problem," is an obstructive behavior within conceptual color-space which blocks the observation of the whole of color-space in any single instance. This challenge was resolved in a new Chroma-generative Composition (Chroma-G) model, which augments rather than replaces the E&P model.;The Chroma-G model provides the basic foundation needed for the formation of a new formal, same-named symbolic language, one that belongs to the visual arts. It is uniquely qualitative, yet as universal as, and interchangeable with, mathematics and logic. This finding represents a building block in our understanding of the language of sensation. In the near future this language will allow artists to launch a new hybrid artist's science for the study of composition in art, the natural sciences and engineering. |
