I am almost certainly speaking from a position of extreme ignorance–but, in general, I don’t ‘get’ the supposed golden ratio in famous art works. To me, every time I see an example on the internet, it just looks like a nice mathematical spiral arbitrarily superimposed over the picture (and often not even the *whole* picture)… with nothing specific I can see attributing a particular balance or ratio of colour, form, space, composition… etc. within the sections, lines, or whorls of the spiral.
I do have a reasonable understanding of basic art and composition like the rule of thirds and negative space… but I can see the immediate logic of those.
I’ve seen a few other posts on this topic but they seem to start from the position that this golden ratio is a given in much great art, and then go from there. Can someone explain–what do I not see or understand in the application?
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It’s mostly made up. All of this seeing the golden ratio and spirals in art is after the fact, ad hoc shoe horning.
[https://plus.maths.org/content/myths-maths-golden-ratio](https://plus.maths.org/content/myths-maths-golden-ratio)
Yes, there are some artists that deliberately used it in their work, but for most part it’s people just making shit up.
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