| "Rules: Logic and Applications" 2nd Workshop, Dec,
2019 |
| Aesthetic Morphisms |
| Jocelyn Ireson-Paine |
| www.jocelyns-cartoons.uk/rules2019/ |
Morphisms That Forcibly Blend
The last few slides were about transforming
a single image.
What about morphisms that map images into composite
images? Joseph Goguen wrote about mapping
concepts into composite concepts, and used
category theory to formalise this as
"conceptual blending".
See for example
"Style as a Choice of Blending
Principles" by
Joseph A. Goguen and D. Fox Harrell.
As far as I know, he didn't consider blending of
images, but his ideas would apply.
Many images depict more than one object.
It's probably not worth trying to apply
conceptual blending to most of them. However,
some artists definitely did want to "force"
exotic blends. Max Ernst was one.
Here is his collage
Above the Clouds Midnight Passes:
By the way, the lace object above the legs
is crocheted — the crochet cotton from which the object was
worked is is shown as a commercial ball slightly underneath. It is
either a tie from the collar or neckline of a dress or, more likely, ties
used around the waist as the fastening on a soft belt. The pattern looks
to be based on a commercial pattern many of which were illustrated in
women's
magazines through the 1920s and 1930s.
Thanks to
Linda Parry of the Dress and Textile Specialists for the
identification.
