golden section - A mathematical ratio first used by the Greeks in their architecture, and developed further in the Renaissance, which was said to be in tune with divine proportion and the harmony of the universe.
Golden Section
A proportion, also known as the Golden Mean, which has been employed for centuries by artists in the composition of paintings.
Golden Section
(aka 'golden mean' or the French 'Section d'Or')
The golden section was developed as early as by Euclid and is supposed to refer to a proportion that is irrational and is thought to have its own intrinsic value, ...
Golden section: or cut or mean: See section on Proportion; geometrical proportion - going back to Plato and Euclid - often used by artists and architects consciously or unconsciously in the composition of their paintings and buildings.
Golden Section...A traditional proportional system for visual harmony expressed when a line or area is divided into two so that the smaller.part is to the larger as the larger is to the whole. The ratio developed is 1:1.6180....or, roughly, 8:13.
The Golden Section, the 'canon' of the (ideal proportions of the) human form as used by Polyclitus, ...
Golden Mean or Golden Section
goo - A creamy paste of cement mixed with water. Goo is the first coat applied to a mold in making a hollow cast concrete sculpture, and forms an even surface layer for the finished cast.
Golden Mean or Golden Section, golden mean or golden section
A proportional relation (ratio) obtained by dividing a line so that the shorter part is to the longer part as the longer part is to the whole.
The Section d'Or ("Golden Section" in French), also known as Groupe de Puteaux or Puteaux Group and based in the Paris suburb of Puteaux, was a collective of painters and critics associated with an offshoot of Cubism known as Orphism.
golden mean - divine proportion, golden ratio, golden section; proportion globally and historically used by artists, deliberately or not, in the composition of paintings; ...
Green, A Review of Psychological Research on the Aesthetics of the Golden Section, Perception, 24, 937-968, 1995.
^ H.E. Huntley, The Divine Proportion, Dover, New York, 1970.
^ Hemenway, Priya (2005).
In 1911 he was a member in the painters' circle known as the "Golden Section", together with La Fresnaye, Léger, Metzinger, Picabia, and others.
The golden section is arrived at by dividing a line unevenly so that the shorter length is to the larger as the larger is to the whole. This ratio is approximately 8:13.
Perhaps even more importantly, this work translates Dali's desire to become Classic in that he is adhering to the rules of Divine Proportion. The theory of the Golden Section, as forwarded by Euclid, created in Dali a whole new painting style, ...
that brought together such artists as Robet Delaunay, Frantisek Kupka, Jacques Villon, and several others, all of whom practicied variants of Cubism and were interested in the old mathematical idea of proportion called the golden Section.
 See also: Painting, Roman, Movement, Portrait, Proportion
  
|
RSS
