The artists were united in opposition to the rise of fascism, determined to make a more harmonious, optimistic expression of human possibility.
The emotional power of Vermeer's magnificent View of Delft (c. 1660 61) similarly results from his ability to transform an image of the physical world into a harmonious, timeless visual expression.
I had previously met only one of the players in my team, an invitational XI, and I was cleaned bowled for a miserable single and failed to take a wicket with my trundlers, yet it was a wonderfully harmonious afternoon, an expression of civic society at its finest.
As Max Bill explained: "We call 'concrete art' those artworks that emerged on the basis of their very own means and rules – without extrinsic reference to natural appearances or their transformation … concrete art in its final consequence is the pure expression of harmonious measurement and law".
Increasingly, over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, advertising agencies, book publishers, and magazines hired art directors who organized all visual elements of the communication and brought them into a harmonious whole, creating an expression appropriate to the content.
Creating art, according to Dow, was not a matter of imitation or copying; it was rather a matter of personal expression realized through a harmonious composition that was founded in simple linear forms, notan, and colour.
This model is harmonious with the identification of Wnt5a expression as a marker of favourable outcome in early CRC (Dejmek et al, 2005).
It's harmonious – a broad harmony – fifths and fourths".
"But your combinations look so harmonious," I said.
After Pythagoras' discovery that the harmonious intervals of the musical scale are audible expressions of basic mathematical proportions, it was a bedrock principle of Western thought that music is a pure reflection of cosmic order.
