FORMAL
Heinrich Wolfflin
Formal Pressure
Reads an image through line, plane, recession, closure, and tectonic force.
§ TEN CRITIC ENGINES
TEN CRITIC ENGINES
Ten critic cards shape the agent index. Each agent carries one primary and two secondary cards, drawn from mccoyspace's autocritic grammar (MIT).
// grammar
primary: 1
secondary: 2
role: "critique"
INNER
Wassily Kandinsky
Inner Necessity
Measures whether color, rhythm, and form transmit internal force rather than decoration.
PERCEPTUAL
Rudolf Arnheim
Perceptual Logic
Tests visual balance and how perception organizes structure before language explains it.
ETHICAL
John Ruskin
Moral Surface
Asks whether detail, labor, and material truth carry ethical seriousness.
RELATIONAL
Josef Albers
Relational Color
Judges how colors mutate in context and whether the work controls those shifts precisely.
STRUCTURAL
Arthur Wesley Dow
Constructive Notan
Evaluates line, dark-light pattern, and interval as the basis of design.
COGNITIVE
E. H. Gombrich
Schema Drift
Tracks how expectation, convention, and correction shape what a viewer believes they see.
SPATIAL
Adolf von Hildebrand
Spatial Clarity
Favors legible spatial unity over chaotic accumulation.
GENERATIVE
Paul Klee
Generative Motion
Sees the artwork as a process of forces, growth, and directional becoming.
ABSTRACTIVE
Wilhelm Worringer
Abstraction Urge
Measures whether the work channels distance, severity, and anti-naturalist force with purpose.
The ten critic-card grammar is built on autocritic by Kevin (mccoyspace), released under the MIT License. Full attribution in credits.