ArtGram.Spur

One reading carries the whole painting and the other five stay where they are. A single argument, made alone, with nothing underneath it to fall back on.

37 paintings · reaches on Palette · holds on Texture, Contrast, Form, Abstraction and Color Range

The most typical Spur in the catalog: Algea – The Pulse of Life. Closest of the 37 to the shape’s own mean on all six.

Where it sits

Texture: 2.6 below the catalog median of 3.0
Contrast: 2.5 below the catalog median of 3.5
Form: 2.3 below the catalog median of 3.0
Abstraction: 1.6 below the catalog median of 2.6
Color Range: 2.4 below the catalog median of 3.0
Palette: 4.1 above the catalog median of 4.0

Means across all 37. The signature is what holds for the shape as a whole, not a rule every painting obeys: a named silhouette cutting through a continuum, not a category with a boundary.

What it is next to

Let one more reading reach and it becomes Fork, Samara or Wing, and let one drop back and it becomes Bud. Two paintings a single step apart are related in a way you can see, which is what makes the thirteen a language rather than a list.