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Ch_3. Architecture Unit 16. Slide 19-12: Mondrian: Composition, 1933 In this unit we will show some of the roots of geometric abstraction in the Twentieth Century, and present an overview of some of the early movements. Up to now we've seen paintings, sculpture, and architecture that had geometric elements: geometric figures, particular ratios like the golden ratio and the musical ratios, and where space was organized by the geometric perspective construction. But now, we have paintings and sculpture that is totally geometric. We've already seen decorative ornamentation that was completely geometric, with no recognizable elements. But these are not decorative ornaments; this is high-class art found in museums and galleries. This kind of art is called geometric abstraction. Geometric Abstraction OT 1: Brancusi: The Kiss, 1908 Three Main Currents The art historian H.W. Expression deals with feelings, and the concern with the human community.
The best works have all three: Without feeling we are unmoved. Simultaneity Cubism. Architecture Unit 10. Celestial Themes in Art & Architecture "When he established the heavens I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the deep:" Proverbs, Chapter 8 par. 27 Slide 4-38: MICHELANGELO: Creation of the Sun Sistine Chapel Ceiling. Canaday, John. We will start on earth and travel upwards through the nine concentric spheres of the Ptolemaic system. The Ptolemaic system gave a geometric structure to the celestial world. Reading The Ptolemaic Universe God The Geometer We vowed to search heaven and earth for geometric art motifs. "When he established the heavens I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the deep:" The Four Realms Lets look at a Medieval version of the universe, consisting of the Four Realms that we mentioned in our unit on number symbolism.
The Nine Spheres of Heaven The number of rings in pictures of this sort vary from one to the other. Di Paolo shows no ring for the Empyrium, just a region beyond the last ring, implying it can't be contained by a circular boundary. Architecture Unit 4. "But thou hast arranged all things by measure and number and weight. " Book of Wisdom of Solomon, from the OT Apocrypha., XI, 20. Elementary Number Symbolism The Pythagoreans were not the only ones who gave symbolic meaning to numbers. According to Vincent Hopper, "nothing in the history of number symbolism is so striking as the unanimity of all ages and climates in regard to the meanings of a few number symbols. " He refers to this as elementary number symbolism. In addition, we'll include numbers from mythology, astrology, and the Old Testament, which is loaded with symbolic numbers. We'll be able to connect some of the numbers used symbolically to larger ideas, but others will seem completely arbitrary.
Numero Uno According to Hopper, the first advance towards counting is with the use of words for one and for many, the differentiation from the self from the group. One - the first - the greatest - the beginning - is usually identified with the Creator. Two & Duality Yin and Yang Famous Trios.