The phrase is repeated over and over, the line of dancers winding across the stage in seemingly never-ending serpentine progression: a poetic image of eternity, of order, symmetry, harmony, of classical ballet itself.
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".
A glimpse into atomic and even subatomic dimensions by field ion microscopy and bubble chamber photographs demonstrates the basic symmetry, harmony and beauty down to the very limit of microcosmos.
In compliant mechanisms [1], symmetry design is important to guarantee the stability the overall desired performances in which symmetry creates balance, harmony, order, and aesthetically pleasing results [2].
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.
He characterizes the result as "an explosion of light, with almost no symmetry, but harmony in the composition".
The walls and columns in his buildings are diminished, disguised, or opened up to create startling and often playful effects while nevertheless retaining a sense of symmetry and harmony.
It does not animate matter in the manner of sculpture but invests matter with strict regularity, symmetry and harmony (PKÄ, 155, 166).
According to Irigaray, Freud's work is sexually indifferent because of its assumption of a kind of symmetry or harmony between masculine and feminine identities and sexualities.
The temple, therefore, should not mimic the flowing contours of the human body, but should be governed by the abstract principles of regularity, symmetry and harmony.
Although analysis of works of art often uses terms like symmetry and harmony, which may in turn be formulated mathematically, it is not necessary for either the artist or the viewer to perceive these relations.
