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I am trying to create a community of indivduals who share a passionate interest in the visual aesthetic. If you have the same interest and want to share, please keep checking back and write in.
I do alot of searching on the web and come across a diverse selection of wonderful images that I would love to share and talk about. My bookmarks page on my home account is getting a little out of hand so this page will help keep me organized, as well as a way for others to share the same with me. Not everything I find is beautiful or pleasant, but all of it is wonderful in some visual aspect.
2 comments:
Most of these images that you've overlaid with the golden ratio-derived spiral are misapplied, and were not in fact used by the artist in the paintings composition.It's a mistake to view the spiral as the only compositional device--as the one use of the G.R.. In most of the paintings the recto-linear use of G.R. is evident.
--From a concerned art instructor.
I have been battling Blogger for awhile and finally was able to enable comments, sorry for the long wait and hopefully you are still coming to this site. I am curious by what you mean by misapplied? Please clarify. The only composition where I know for sure that the G.R. was used is "the Roses of Heliogabalus" and state as much. My point in bringing up the G.R. is that it is part of nature's grand design and a tool (one of the many) that an artist can use when looking at composition. I personally believe that the G.R. is actually more powerful in that it still works when distorted and that many pleasing compositions "unconsciously" incorporate it even in it's distorted form. So please "concerned" art instructor reply. The purpose in this blog is to have healthy discourse and to learn and expand ones perspective. I await with empty cup...
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