Homework #5

Kimberly Torres

11/27/12

                                                                      Design Basics

1. The painting personal values by Rene Magritte shows Surrealism with size and proportions by showing different personal items within the space. The objects themselves are all have different sized proportions but will confuse the viewer at first glance because objects that are normally small in real life are portrayed large while others are shrunken. 
2. The ideal geometry in a composition is like a ratio that give the "measurement" to an object in relation to something next to it. this measurement would follow the rules of the canon, which was also the perfect measurement for the ideal figure. An example of this would be the human figure which requires  the use of exact proportions.
3. The Golden Rectangle or "Golden Mean" is a ratio between length and width but also the proportions could also be found in growth patterns in nature such as plants, a shell, and of the human body. This same thing can relate to the Fibonacci Sequence which is also be found in the golden mean, is a series of numbers which is the sum of the previous two.
4. These three ideas combined is are the source of my final project which is panel the includes microcosm, macrocosm, and the Fibonacci Sequence. My inspiration for my panel was to have an aquatic theme but instead of using the typical fish and seaweed images depicted in this theme, i thought i'd use a seashells and a shoreline scenery. I wanted to play with the space and have it appear as thought its is a new found land that people have traveled to see it.