The Geometry of Art and Life 1946
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: October 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781417978328
Subjects: Theory of art; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Criticism; Art / Criticism
First sentence: THE NOTION of proportion is, in logic as well as in Aesthetics, one of the most elementary, most important, and most difficult to sort out with precision; it is either confused with the notion of ratio, which comes logically before it, or (especially when talking of proportions in the plural) with the notion of a chain of characteristics ratios linked together by a modulus, a common sub-multiple; we have then the more complex concept which the Greeks and Vitruvius called "Symmetria," and the Renaissance architects, "Commodulatio."