Rhythmic Form in Art - Brossura

Richter, Irma A.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0486443795 ISBN 13: 9780486443799

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2005

Riassunto

In this captivating study, an influential scholar-artist offers timeless advice on shape, form, and composition for artists in any medium. Irma Richter illuminates the connections between art and science by surveying works of art from classical antiquity through the Modernist era. Richter shows the conscious and unconscious ways artists animated their works with geometric principles in an attempt to reconcile the realms of form and design.
This book presents a simple method that can be employed for every kind of design—a method that underlies some of the greatest paintings of the Renaissance and was used by the architect of the Parthenon and the craftsmen of ancient Egypt. With research that leads to Florence, Chartres, Athens, and up the Nile Valley, the author surveys the geometric scheme behind the works of art of the past. Seventy-two images help illustrate the philosophical and religious significance connected with the artistic proportioning of space.

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Contenuti

I. Introduction a. Architecture, Sculpture and Painting b. Painting and Music c. Proportion in Space II. Pythagoras III. Greek Art and Mathematics IV. Mathematical Definitions a. Geometric Proportion b. Divine Proportion c. Geometric Progression d. Table of Arithmetic Values e. Pentagon and Decagon V. Rhythmic Division of Space in Art VI. Timęus a. Creation by Geometry b. The Timęus in Christian Cosmology c. Plato and the Renaissance VII. Egypt a. Tombstone of an Egyptian King b. Pectoral of Senusert II VIII. The Greek Vase a. Vase Forms b. Vase Painting IX. A Greek Relief X. The Parthenon a. The Euthynteria b. The Stylobate c. The Doric Order d. The Peristyle e. The Capital f. The Faēade g. The Metope h. The Cella i. The Naos Appendix XI. The Middle Ages a. Chartres b. Aureoles and Nimbi c. Dante's Zones of Heaven XII. Italian Painting a. The Origin b. The Quattrocento c. The Cinquecento d. Venice XIII. Some Masterpieces of other Schools Dürer, El Greco, Poussin, Fragonard, Hogarth, Cézanne XIV. A Retrospect Index

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Book by Richter Irma

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0486443795
• ISBN 13: 9780486443799
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 127