The classical conception is that beauty consists of an arrangement of integral parts into a coherent whole, according to proportion, harmony, symmetry, and similar notions.
It consists in "symmetry," "harmony," or "proportion," or "as Mr. Hutcheson" says, in "agreement of different things in form, manner, quantity, and visible end or design," i.e., in "regularity".
Mr. Saint Laurent recalled for an overstimulated audience how fashion can suddenly look new just by giving it a sense of harmony and proportion.
In his hugely influential Latin treatise on building, this ancient writer set out the principles of classical design that were revived in Renaissance Italy: columns and pediments, harmony and proportion.
Palladio was less concerned with a specific style than his many followers were; he was far more interested in a reinterpretation of ancient Roman architecture, the eternal notions of harmony and proportion, and the idea that buildings were a practical joy.
He depicted the framework of the world as splitting asunder, but even in its destruction there occurs as the monstrously "beautiful" forms of the unleashed elements show the self-same laws of order, harmony, and proportion that presided at the world's creation.
It implies a sure knowledge of the correct form of letters i.e., the conventional signs by which language can be communicated and the skill to make them with such ordering of the various parts and harmony of proportions that the experienced, knowledgeable eye will recognize such composition as a work of art.
Line, form, colour, and texture are the basic design elements that are selected, then composed into a harmonious unit based on the principles of design balance, contrast, rhythm, scale, proportion, harmony, and dominance.
His earliest nudes nod in the direction of conformity to the rules of ancient sculpture and current theories of harmony and mathematical proportion, but during the 1520s Cranach developed a new interpretation of the female form.
It's something that has to be done with grace, and with harmony, and with proportion.
