What Is A Great Image?
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Finite / InfiniteFinite / InfiniteIconic / ImmenseIconic / Immense
Mundane / TranscendentMundane / TranscendentBanal / Epic Banal / Epic
Singularity / MultiplicitySingularity / MultiplicityPart / WholePart / Whole
In NatureIn Nature
Φ Phi = 1 : 1.618
My step father made me eat a plate of these when we were camping once…
Hurricane Andrew in three positions, August 1992
Spiral Galaxy NGC 1232
The Cochlea
All of that is to say:
There is pervasive geometry in the organic structure of the universe.
And in you.
Tigris/EuphratesTigris/Euphrates
NileNile
AmazonAmazon
IndusIndus
GangesGanges
YellowYellow
MississippiMississippi
Cultural Expressions
Great Pyramid Complex at Giza – 2550 BC
Nazca Lines of Peru – 1-700 CE
Earhart - 1937
The wreck of the Teignmouth Electron in the Cayman Islands, from a series by Tacita Dean in 1999 See the PBS documentary Deep Water and the book A Voyage for Madmen
The Moon Shots – 1963 - 1972
“Obviously a major malfunction” - January 28, 1986
September 11, 2001
Art Historical Expressions
Pieter Claesz, Vanitas1630
Adriaen van Utrecht, Vanitas1642
Hans Baldung Grien, Death and the Maiden1517
Matthias Grunewald, Crucifixion1515
Bronze statue of Shiva as Nataraja, Lord of the Dance. Chola Period - 860 through 1280
Vajravarahi Mandala, Tibet1800s
Monk crafting a sand mandala – unique to Tibetan Buddhism since 2000 BC
Western Portal Tympanum at Chartres Cathedral, The Second Coming1260
Pontormo, Deposition of Christ1525
Titian, The Transfiguration1560
Henry Ossawa Tanner, Annunciation 1898
Pop Culture
Art - Contemporary
Julie Mehretu, Excerpt
Julie Mehretu, Untitled
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty
Bill Viola, The Crossing
Bill Viola, Five Angels For The Millennium
Andy Goldsworthy, Untitled
Andy Goldsworthy, Untitled
Robert Irwin, The Discs
Robert Irwin, The Discs
Richard Serra, Joe
Richard Serra, Band
Jen Stark, Piece of an Infinite Whole
Jen Stark, The Whole
James Turrell, Skyspace at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, England
James Turrell, Roden Crater
James Turrell, The Artist with Roden Crater
Julie Heffernan, Self Portrait as Booty
Julie Heffernan, Self Portrait as Two Queens
Matt Ballou, The Omen – Three Figures in a Landscape
Matt Ballou, The Omen – Four Figures on a Height
Matt Ballou, Self Portrait With the History of the World
Matt Ballou, The Resonators
Matt Ballou, Mandala
Matt Ballou, Beneath Ahab’s Doubloon