In between Reason and Myth: Art and Science in the Divine Proportion
Abstract
Historically the study of the proportions supposes one of the fields of more attractiveness
where they are integrated Art and Geometry perfectly in the creation aware of works. The Divine Proportion can be considered an emblem of this shared knowledge. The interest that you/they demonstrate for her artists, architects, mathematical, philosophers, aesthetes… it
increases with the time and in this study a revision of the phenomenon is exposed,
analyzing the phases that have transformed a simple geometric relationship into the contemporary myth that identifies it as the key of the universal beauty. It is verified
how the artists look for support in Science, in this case the Geometry, to find answers in their yearning of search of the perfection in the work of art and the truthfulness of numerous studies is questioned that attribute the use of this proportion to artists and works of all the times from
the subjective speculation.
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