I understand the math but I have no idea how it connects to art or “aesthetically pleasing shapes”.
Every image I see looks like a spiral slapped randomly onto a painting, and sometimes not even the entirety of the painting. The art never seems to follow any of the apparent guidelines of the spiral. I especially don’t understand it when it’s put on a persons face.
I can see and understand the balance of artistic uses of things such as “the rule of 3rds” and negative space, dynamic posing, etc. However, I cannot comprehend how the golden ratio attributes anything to the said * balance * of a work of art.
I saw an image of Parthenon in Athens, Greece with the golden ratio spiral over it. It’s just a symmetrical, rectangular building. I don’t understand how the golden ratio applies to it.
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The truth is that the vast, vast majority of the claims of the “Golden Ratio” or “Golden Spiral” in aesthetics and art are simply nonsense. You can safely ignore any images or videos overlaying the Golden Spiral onto buildings or paintings.
*Most* of the claims of the Golden Ratio being used in art and architecture are false or lacking in evidence. However due to the popularity of the myths around the Golden Ratio there are some works of art that include it intentionally. If those ratios are particularly beautiful lies in the eye of the beholder.
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