Appendix III

ANALYSIS OF THE VISUAL VARIABLES FORMING A COLOREME

1. Texture

a) Texture of the support:

Fine granulation

Medium granulation

Coarse granulation

Firm stretching

Undulated/floating stretching

Checkerboard, oblique weaving

Disjointed support

Slight reliefs

Hollowed regions

Frayed material

Assemblage of materials

Addition of contrasted material

b) Texture of the Pictorial plane:

Stained canvas

Flat and glossy

Flat and mat

Slight reliefs

Medium reliefs

Speckled brushworks

Corrugated brushworks

Juxtaposed brushworks

Superposed brushworks

Hatchings

Droplets

Pasted

Drippings

Continuous brushworks

Dots in relief

Primed or unprimed canvas/support

Bulges by plaiting or sewing

Superposition by collages

Glazes

Mat varnish

Shining varnish

2. Boundaries/Forms

Hard-edge

Neat and firm

Contour line

Shading off

Dissolved frontiers

Opened on the superior side

Opened on the inferior side

Opened on the left side

Opened on the right side

The various forms can be described according to the Repertory of Forms (See Appendix II). The virtual forms are produced mainly by the vectorialities and interactions of colors. As numerous as the actual forms, the virtual forms are made up of the same visual variables and should be described by the same criteria.

3. Colors

a) Tonalities:

b) Chromatisms

4. Vectorialities

Horizontal

Vertical

Harmonic oblique

Dysharmonic oblique

Centrifugal circular

Centripetal circular

Arcs of circle

Orthogonal

Focusing

Interlaces

Spiral

Undulated

Envelopment of the top by the bottom

Envelopment of the bottom by the top

Envelopment of the left by the right

Envelopment of the right by the left

Angularity

In spray

Some encasing/emboxing

Virtual movement in surrounding field

Movement stopped by frontier

5. Dimension

The dimensions of coloremes are described on the basis of their perceptual expansion inside a compartment and their possible expansion in neighboring compartments. If the criterion of five coloremes by compartment is chosen, each coloreme occupies ¹/₅, ²/₅, ³/₅, ⁴/₅ or ⁵/₅ of it, and the same scale is applied in the neighboring compartments. The dimension of regions (or groups of coloremes) is appreciated by their occupancy of so many compartments following the use of the statistical grid.

6. Types of liaisons between adjacent coloremes

Or else. in the case of compartment “H” :

7. Vectorialities inside a compartment