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My dad is an amateur painter (well, he's sold stuff, but never enough to make a living), recently he has framed some of his abstract paintings from over the years (about 30 years from oldest to most recent). The paintings all look very different, yet all off them have a rectangle longer in the vertical axis in the bottom left hand corner. He noticed they were all similair proportions. He measured them and found they were very close to the golden ratio, despite the fact he had drawn them years apart, without looking at the other pictures and hadn't heard of the golden ratio when he had drawn 2 of them... |
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what the heck is the "golden ratio"? |
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1:1.618...etc. it's linked to Pi. Lots of stuff i nature and art follows it. Do a google search... |
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A is to B as B is to C try fibbonacci numbers |
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or a mb |
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sounds boring... |
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Yep. |
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if stuff with the golden proportion in just look 'nice', like paintings sculptures faces hands bodies etc., then you are gonna naturally (subconciously) draw stuff which is near to the golden ratio... or so i reckon, makes sense? music based on this sounds shit though, imo, fibonacci stuff especially.... bo-ring. |
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I think it's fascinating. the greek's used it a lot in their architecture. |
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I agree, but its the fact they were abstract pictures that I found interesting. Order in Chaos etc. :) |
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It crops up everywhere - The shells of snails, plant structures, architecture, the ratio of different parts of the human body to each other, and lots of boards of canada's music too. |
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coffee, whirpools, tornados... spiral out, keep going = ) |
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My favorite coffee cup has a golden ratio. |
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the golden ratio is better then the silver ratio...your dad should be very proud. |
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boring to talk about, ye. but i've always been curious,,, the notes- naturals, sharps, and flats. chords and dischords. scales. i know the premise behing the use of the golden rectangle by palladio and later by jefferson, corbusier, etc. was that it evoked a sense of harmony- you looked at the pieces, and they were in a 'pleasing' arrangement. this isn't to say that creative works must follow this, since the goal is many times not comfort. color theory has related principles. there are even different strobe speeds that are believed to alter one's emotions. metaphysics has feng shui type-shit. so, with music, what is the deal? is there a set note / tempo / rhythm structure that underlies all music? is there a universal 'ratio' to music? circle of fifths, or whatever. different cultures have music that uses use inherently different chord structures, tones, etc. But they often fuse pretty nicely. i'm sure there's some people out there who know more than i on music theory, but anything would be interesting. |
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