Painting Taxonomy
The tools we use to describe what happens in the studio, and to tell a formal variation from a structural change.
01 · THE WORKING TAXONOMY
The working taxonomy
A working classification of painting, used to examine elements such as form, colour, contour, space and surface, and above all the relations between them.
Painting Taxonomy — Working Version 0.2
24 Categories / 94 Subcategories / 300 Elements
This taxonomy is a developing research framework. Terminology and relationships remain subject to editorial review.
02 · HOW WE WORK
How we work
The studio as laboratory
Experiments start from a problem set in advance or from a spontaneous observation, and are documented as they develop.
Read in Project 01The transfer test
A direction that works on one subject is tested on others, to see whether its logic holds.
Read in Project 01The precedent check
Each direction is compared with historical and contemporary precedents, in its structure as well as its appearance.
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