What makes things Beautiful? Annabelle Larsen

The Sequence… The Fibonacci Sequence is the series of numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, ... The next number is found by adding up the two numbers before it. The 2 is found by adding the two numbers before it (1+1) Similarly, the 3 is found by adding the two numbers before it (1+2), And the 5 is (2+3), and so on! It is that simple! www.mathisfun.com

The Fibonacci Spiral The Fibonacci Spiral (or The Golden Ratio) is a really math-heavy study, but in summary it just explains how a lot of things in nature are naturally designed to be aesthetically pleasing.

Examples in Nature

Many artists and architects use the spiral in their art to make it more pleasing to the eye.

Can you identify and Spirals in this room?

Omar Rayyan. Omar, through his artwork, tested some of these ratios by creating paintings that shows beautiful girls holding frightening creatures, this could be seen as a type of display of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and that people are taught what is beautiful, and what isn’t.

Bibliography http://www.artofmanliness.com/2011/03/03/the-basics-of-art-the-romantic-period/ http://www.studyblue.com/notes/note/n/cubism-and-picasso-class-7-edited/deck/9687240 http://studiorayyan.com/index.php http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/golden-ratio.html