OIL
COLOR PAINTINGS
ORGANIZED on REGULATING TRACES
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Not too long ago I
saw an exhibition of a few works of painting and sculpture by Le Corbusier. I
was interested in
his search for
organization of the represented figures on "regulating traces",
geometrical grids with which he would
establish dimensional
relations of harmonic proportions. It is a procedure that he used to adopt in
architecture as
well as in painting. As
far as I know and understand, also music is organized on mathematical patterns
among soun-
ds, their repetitions and
cadences, which give it rhythm and harmony.
Here are a few
examples of regulating traces suggested by Le Corbusier, which I have noted:
One figure that
I've often used is the golden rectangle, in which the long side has the same
relation to the short side
as the sum of the two has to the long side. This relation
consists of the golden number = 1.618...
Inside this rec-
tangle one can inscribe a
square, with a side equal to the short side of the rectangle, and another
golden rectangle,
with a long side equal
to the short side of the first rectangle:
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And so forth…:
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Another scheme,
which is related to this, consists of a rectangle with a long side twice as
long as the short side, e-
qual, that is, to two squares next
to each other; and of a third square, inscribed in that rectangle, over the
spot of
the right angle:
b / a = 1,618… a + b = l
Some schemes which I
have used in the lay-out of a few paintings are as follows:
In one case, in “My desk”, such traces were not set out on the
canvas, whereas on the table itself, on
which I laid down the different objects and then depicted them from
in front. In most of these paintings, moreover, I tried to adopt measures
taken from Le Corbusier’s Modulor,
a harmonic system of dimensions based on the proportional relations of the
human body.
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