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  2. Proportion (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Proportion is a central principle of architectural theory and an important connection between mathematics and art. It is the visual effect of the relationship of the various objects and spaces that make up a structure to one another and to the whole. These relationships are often governed by multiples of a standard unit of length known as a ...

  3. Artistic canons of body proportions - Wikipedia

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    Academic artStyle of painting and sculpture; Anthropic units – Academic term in archaeology, social studies and measurement; Beauty – Characteristic that provides pleasure or satisfaction; Canon (basic principle), a rule or a body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field of art or philosophy

  4. Composition (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    Such factors in composition should not be confused with the elements of art (or elements of design) themselves. For example, shape is an element; the usage of shape is characterized by various principles. Some principles of organization affecting the composition of a picture are: Shape and proportion

  5. De pictura - Wikipedia

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    Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in nature, his groundbreaking work sets out the principles of distance, dimension and proportion; instructs the painter on how to use the rules of composition, representation, light and colour to create work that is graceful and pleasing to the eye; and stipulates the moral and artistic pre-requisites ...

  6. Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture - Wikipedia

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    Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture is an architecture manifesto conceived by architect Le Corbusier. [1] It outlines five key principles of design that he considered to be the foundations of the modern architectural discipline, which would be expressed through much of his designs.

  7. Elements of art - Wikipedia

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    A shape is a two-dimensional design encased by lines to signify its height and width structure, and can have different values of color used within it to make it appear three-dimensional. [2] [4] In animation, shapes are used to give a character a distinct personality and features, with the animator manipulating the shapes to provide new life. [1]

  8. Rule of thirds - Wikipedia

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    Analogous to this "Rule of thirds", (if I may be allowed so to call it) I have presumed to think that, in connecting or in breaking the various lines of a picture, it would likewise be a good rule to do it, in general, by a similar scheme of proportion; for example, in a design of landscape, to determine the sky at about two-thirds ; or else at ...

  9. List of works designed with the golden ratio - Wikipedia

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    [3] [6] John F. Pile, interior design professor and historian, has claimed that Egyptian architects sought the golden proportions without mathematical techniques and that it is common to see the 1.618:1 ratio, along with many other simpler geometrical concepts, in their architectural details, art, and everyday objects found in tombs. In his ...