Concerning Matila C. Ghyka and Visual Beauty (IV)
Concerning Matila C. Ghyka and Visual Beauty (IV)

Summary/Abstract: Selected from a more extensive research paper (“Matila C. Ghyka and Visual Beauty”), this study includes a few details about Matila C. Ghyka (b.13.09.1881, Jassy – d. 14.07.1965, London) and visual beauty, considered as a whole as an expression of the golden number (phi=1,618...) and of harmonious characteristics, both in his aesthetic vision and in general. This section contains a series of references to conceptual antecedents and enduring significances of compositional harmony that converge when considering beauty from a mathematical perspective. By its very abstract system, the scientific approach certifies for Matila C. Ghyka the permanence and the plurality of harmony in the visual medium, within which the golden number has an essential and invariable function as a constitutive factor, both for natural and artistic beauty.

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