Tag Archives: the golden mean

connectivity through form

Posted on June 11, 2011 by tai

Guest blog from Tai Carmen at Parallax.Parallax: exploring the architecture of human perception Tai Carmen: “There is a special ratio that can be used to describe the proportions of everything from nature’s smallest building blocks, such as atoms, to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged bruce rawles, carl friedrich gauss, Carl Jung, cubism golden mean, divine proportion, divine ratio, fibonacci sequence, justin kuepper, Leonardo Da Vinci, Salvador dali, stan gris, tai carmen, tai carmen parallax, the golden mean, The Golden Ratio, Vermeer, Voltaire | Leave a comment

bliss is golden: balancing act of invisible glory

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Dave

A is to B as B is to C. See? But, seeing is not always believing.How does one mediate opposites which appear contradictory and hostile to one another? Jung suggested a transcendent function which is a combination of conscious and … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Albrecht Durer, Botticelli, Carl Jung, De Stijl, E.H. Gombrich, Friedrich Nietzsche, Leonardo Da Vinci, luca pacioli, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, roberto assagioli, Sandro Botticelli, Sigmund Freud, the golden mean, The Golden Ratio, Theo Van Doesburg | Leave a comment

eureka moments: 3+3=5

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Dave

In the grand scheme of things nature is much bigger in comparison to the individual. Nonetheless, man has found it irresistible to try to prove his superiority. A lost cause. Our ego is always searching for divine patterns; from the … Continue reading →