Golden ratio composition art

Armondo Barrios (1920-1999) Fibonacci Spiral, The Golden Ratio

Photographers are naturally visual people. We are drawn to certain images and patterns but often don’t know why. When we become aware of the “why” and use it intentionally when shooting, we create …

People have been in love with hedgehogs since they first set eyes on those cute little critters, and since then we've been expressing our love by making them the subject of many artistic masterpieces.However, the human centric heads of the art world didn't want galleries displaying works of art depicting hedgehogs as superior life forms, so they censored the artwork by painting people over the hedgehogs.So hedgehog art historian Princess Pricklepants has been busy uncovering the ugly truth…

Phi, or 1.618, is known as the golden ratio, and can be found throughout artistic composition and nature. It can be represented in the formula (a+b)/a = a/b = phi.This formula applies to the golden…

Who among us has never heard of the golden ratio? We speak of a mathematical constant, the number 1.618, producedContinue reading

Description == add Note == This fibonacci spiral is lazy. I recommend THIS VERSION. ==== More info * The Lazy Rule of Thirds * Fibonacci_number ---- Create Environment: Photoshop CS2 Copyright (c) 2009 masaaki KAJI ----

Blackwing Vol. 55 celebrates the Golden Ratio, a mathematical value that appears all throughout the natural world. When applied to the arts, it becomes a tool for creating balanced, organic works. In our latest blog post, we explore the history of the Golden Ratio, its application to art, and how to spot it in some of the world's most famous artworks.