Despre numere în artele vizuale
About Numbers in Visual Arts

Author(s): Cristian Ungureanu
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts
Published by: Editura Politehnium
Keywords: sacred geometry; composition; visual arts; symbolism; transdisciplinarity;
Summary/Abstract: An extremely interesting and captivating aspect is that of the conceptions on numbers in the great schools of thought of European culture, similar to those in Asia, Africa, the two Americas, Australia and Oceania. With immemorial roots, these theories regarding the nature and purpose of numbers in the manifest world have always had a complex nature, which included philosophical, mathematical, theological, as well as artistic aspects. "Cultural archaeology" studies I have been conducting over two decades have confronted me with the evidence of such a compositional and symbolic science which supposes the conjugation of certain doctrinaire elements with their geometric and symbolic projections, as well as relationships with multiple areas of existence, the numerical principles of this sacred science being found in the constituting patterns of the vegetal or animal realm, while also conditioning the growth proportions of the human body.

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