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.
He recalls the great men who taught or inspired him: Helmholtz, Hertz, Maxwell, Planck, and above all Paul Drude, whose life and mind exemplified the classical virtues of proportion, harmony, and grace that Jakob reveres.
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.
Though number to the early Pythagoreans was still a kind of cosmic matter, like the water or air proposed by the Ionians, their stress upon numerical proportions, harmony, and order constituted a decisive step toward a metaphysic in which form is the basic reality.
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".
He carried beliefs in proportion and harmony throughout his life.
The answer used to seem obvious enough: a beautiful building was one that realized certain abstract ideals of symmetry, proportion and harmony.
You have to address the same issues of scale, selection, composition, proportion, and harmony when you're making a graph as you do when you're painting a picture.
It is rather that Ms. Tharp illuminates the Classical side, with its attributes of proportion and harmony, and does so through her disciplined structure and stricter-than-usual adherence to ballet's vocabulary.
It is also found in objects of hearing, such as beautiful oratory, voices, speech, song music, consonance, proportion and harmony.
As abstract art shape based on rhythm, proportion and harmony, in these images architecture and music share a clear cultural lineage.
