Abstract & Visual Grammars.

Introduction.

There can be many grammars, rules for composing symbols.

When an Art form fulfills the rules of a grammar, it's correct speech from that grammar's perspective, at least. Otherwise it's not correct speech form.

There are official, sanctioned grammars - it's usually good start to learn from these, even if not completely.

As with any art, every artist should create her or his own style, however, be free.


Visual Grammars.

Visual grammars are like algorithms, rules of using visual symbols in correct order & positioning.

There are simple symbols & complex symbols as well. Complex visual symbol consist of one or more of simple visual symbol(s) or/and complex visual symbol(s).

There are interpretations, that explain the order of placement meaning, as well as what positions tell, what is relation & speech between symbols, as well.

All of possible interpretations compose a grammar, there's default interpretation or a key symbol telling which interpretation to use.


Speech between Visual Symbols.

Each of symbol(s) is in relation(s) with each of other visual symbol(s) & with itself.

Relation tells how a symbol relates to an another symbol, and how it's in opposite direction - unless it's a relation with itself.

Relations can be many, and include:
- liking,
- understanding,
- contrasting,
- opposing,
- completing,
- enhancing,
- reinforcing.

Relations can have value(s), for example 'liking' relation might be 'likes', or 'does not like', or 'likes very much, but not often', etc.

Relations have two values each, one value in each of directions, unless it's a relation with itself.

Multiple of relations in one direction can be reduced to one multi-forked arrow, described with a single value, for a better overview. it's not the perfect solution when abstract & imprecise speech is used at a group, but practical as hell. Simplifies things a lot for artist, saving a lot of the precious time & effort.

An order of placement, positions, relations & their values can change with time, as in an animation.


Abstract Art Grammars.

Abstraction is a generalization, on topic as well.

There are levels of abstraction, higher levels are more terse, with longer description of interpretation, allow to speak more using less of symbols.

There can be art(s) of text, of image(s), of music, of film(s), of other art(s), each art used is called a 'layer' and together these are composed into a higher-level layer.

Grammar handles order of placement, positions & speech relations within a layer. There are higher-level-grammars that join lower-level-grammars.

There might be a flat-grammar that reduces all of the symbols of all layers into the one layer with the order of placement, positions & speech between these, as with the visual symbols speech.

Interpretations can animate, change with time, as well.

There's default interpretation of the flat-grammar or a key telling which interpretation to use for a given flat-grammar.