Art Theory Text with Types A and B Configuration Diagrams 1943

Curator: Here we have a page of script, titled "Art Theory Text with Types A and B Configuration Diagrams," by Stuart Davis. Editor: It looks like a chaotic manifesto, really. The handwriting is frantic, almost like a secret code, a world of personal symbols spilling out onto the page. Curator: Davis meticulously explores his theory of "configuration" here, breaking down art into ratios of size and structure. Editor: It’s fascinating how he's trying to quantify something so ethereal. He’s wrestling with the essence of art itself. Does imposing a system on something so subjective actually lead to deeper understanding, or does it flatten its messy, vibrant core? Curator: Perhaps both? Davis used the grid of abstraction to uncover art's architecture, to reveal how its components create something moving. Editor: Maybe trying to cage the beast of art is part of the joy. Trying to understand, always reaching. That feels very human.