ArtGraph

LAST REVIEWED 7 NOVEMBER 2026

How ArtGraph works with AI.

A language system for abstract art, built by a person. Here is where AI is part of it, and where it is not.

The framework

The Taxonomy of Abstraction, its dimensions, its vocabulary and the ArtGram it draws are my own work, built by hand over years of looking at paintings. AI did not invent them, and it does not change them.

The readings

ArtGraph uses AI to help put a painting into words: a first draft of how it reads along each dimension. I review the readings, and the language they use is the language the framework gives them. Let the machine check the work; never let it sign it.

The paintings

The paintings this site reads are mine, made by hand in my studio in Phoenix, with paint, thread and gravity. No AI is used to make them.

The writing

I use AI to help draft and edit some of the essays and pages on this site. I rewrite before anything goes out, and if you ask, I will always tell you.

The books

How AI was part of The Shape of Seeing and The Unalgorithmic Self, and of the audiobooks, is set out on rituart.com/ai.

Contact

Ritu Raj, Phoenix, Arizona, USA  —  info@artgraph.co