The Benedictine. Digital image 2020
“Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from.” ― Bahá'u'lláh
Symmetrical proportions the cycle life.
The drawing and painting of people and animals, an activity of artists since primitive times, is clearly associated with symmetry, and geometry, since the human form and the forms of living creatures in general are obviously highly symmetrical in shape. Indeed the beauty of the human form, and also of an animal such as the horse, is firmly based on their symmetrical proportions. Artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer were deeply concerned with the proportions of the human form from a truly geometrical point of view.
Subjective impulses and perceptions
What is the process in the production of the artist’s work of art? James Engel describes the process as the unifying action of man’s self-conscious and free intelligence:
Part of this philosophy, philosophy of art, tries to bind together the
philosophies of nature and of the mind by seeing in works of art, in their
highest and best sense, a unity of man’s self-conscious and free intelligence
with nature’s material and objective reality. Through creative imagination the
mind affirms its own existence by joining its subjective impulses and
perceptions with the particulars of nature. The resulting work of art, or
kunstprodukt, is itself real and objective, a token and a promise to man, it
symbolizes the union of the mind’s free willful consciousness with the
independence and given nature of the cosmos (Engell, 301-302)."
