concept of "beauty", as we know, in the abstract.The fact whether beauty has its own laws, with most people thought a long time.The dispute on the subject today.But all the same, whether there are any natural, immutable laws of beauty that would be perceived as generally accepted?Or is it the concept is individual?What is harmony?Symmetry and asymmetry?This and many other things we will try to tell in this material.
laws of beauty in the art of the ancient world
In early times, at the dawn of human society, and the Egyptians and the Chinese mathematically justified harmony with the help of the division and the relationship of segments according to the formula a / b = b / (a + b), where a lowerb.The Greeks attributed the harmony with the concepts of "measure" and "harmony", the implications of this "agreement raznoglasnogo" and the principles of music and sounds.The rounded form - the division of any magnitude in the ratio of 62% and 38% - the number is limited to 1.62.
golden section in art and architecture
Do Beauty has its own laws, we can study the example of the global art history.The proportions of many of the pyramids in ancient Egypt match rule "golden section".It is also generally used in the manufacture of household items, ornaments, bas-reliefs (by the way, in spite of that, according to opinion polls, many people today believe these proportions over extended).
Leonardo da Vinci and many other artists have deliberately used these "divine proportions" and correlation.The current scientists found that the entire universe, from the microcosm to galaxies in general, this corresponds to the law of beauty.Living organisms also have the "golden section".This law - universal.Proportion is a kind of benchmark matrix.A deviation from it - rather exception to the rule, confirming the Law (caused, for example, adaptation to the environment).
Symmetry and asymmetry
Do Beauty has its own laws, we can observe also studying the phenomenon of symmetry.This concept is found in many areas of human activity.In particular - in art and architecture.What is it?
Translation from Greek - proportionality or unchanged.And also - the ordering, proportionality.These are the main characteristics of this concept.In the animate and inanimate nature, this phenomenon is quite developed, and it can often be observed.A striking example - butterfly wings or the design of a human face.However, the nature of symmetry is never complete, absolute.And like each other will not be part of the same with one hundred percent accuracy.
In mathematics and geometry, on the other hand, this concept reaches the absolute values.Thus, in the geometry of symmetry is the ability to display figures, which retains its shape and properties.Roughly speaking, a figure considered to be symmetrical, with a linear transformation turning into itself.
Symmetry in art
idea of absolute linear mapping pervades the art of ancient Greece.Remember strictly symmetrical shapes of ancient monuments, objects (such as Greek vases).This phenomenon is most clearly reflected in the ornaments of many peoples of the world.At different times the idea of symmetry in the pictures - knowingly or unknowingly - used by many artists and sculptors.Uniformity is characterized by repetitions, even for oral and songwriting, since ancient times.Thus, the question: "Do the laws of your beauty?" You can answer that one - symmetry.By the way, the asymmetry in the works of some artists (Picasso, Dali and other), as an exception to the rule, only underscores the current Basic Law.
