PAINTING IN PROGRESSION ( week 7)

P.I.P.

PAINTING IN PROGRESSION

Week 7

STILL LIFE WITH THREE GROUPS OF FLOWERS

(in-progress)

James Aponovich

THE UNDERLYING SUPER STRUCTURE OF VISUAL RHYTHM

( The Secrets of the Universe Revealed)

BUT...

"It don't mean a thing

If it ain't got that swing."

-D. Ellington

For anybody who has had the misfortune to see me dance, it would

have become painfully obvious that I do not possess any body rhythm.

I was a massive disappointment to my mother.

Fortunately, visual rhythm is another matter...

Leon Battista Alberti was a Florentine author, party boy , and most importantly, 

an architect. He, with some other guys created in Florence what we

now call the Renaissance. Although he was an important Theoretician,

he designed the beautiful facade of Santa Maria Novella, not far

from the not so beautiful train station in Florence.

YEAH, SO?

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN PROFESSOR WIDGIT?

3 : 4

That means that this painting is a horizontal, 3 : 4  ratio, more or less.

It can be divided into three horizontal sections and four verticals. Draw

some triangles and fill them with stuff. It's alright I guess, a bit stiff

and static....kinda clumsy, like the guy who can't dance.

9 : 12 : 16

Alberti decided to spice things up, so he incorporated

Renaissance Musical Consonances into the equation

and created a rhythm that still rocks.

9 : 12 equals 3 : 4

12 : 16 equals 3 : 4

So instead of having the vase dead center, it is just off to the left.

A triangle drawn from it's top to the sides incorporates all of  the 'stuff'

like a broad umbrella.

SUPPORTING VERTICAL COLUMNS

To the leftist a pyramid of objects. While....

it is countered on the right by a slightly larger one.

At the intersection of the two lines is the

'Golden Section Point'....

where I placed the Full Moon.

As an anchor I've added a fourth, smaller triangle with

a single Agapanthus flower....

to end the sentence, so to speak.

Coming next week-

Lost In Space