Art - Thoughts - Combinations of Order and Disorder

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In my last post, I reviewed how I think that we often feel more drawn to images that show much order rather than those who we feel are very disordered. And that if we combine order and disorder, they can be even more interesting than those with "just" order (I don´t know if total order or disorder is possible to illustrate).

I will show the images again (so you don´t have to read / remember my last post):

When I paint, make designs or when I look at art, I often think about what makes a good combination of order and disorder. Here is an example of a work of art that many recognize: The Vitruvian Man, made by Leonardo da Vinci (photo taken by  Luc Viatour / https://Lucnix.be ) 

There is a lot of symmetry and order in the image - a circle, a rectangle and how the writing follows lines. But there is also a disorder in the image - the paper's brown spots and shades, the man's shadows and hair. But also the text - even if the rows are mostly straight lines, the different shapes of the letters and the different lengths of the words gives it a geometric disorder (something that applies to almost all text).

I think that the way in which order and disorder has been balanced in this image may be a reason to why I'm drawn to this artwork. But I also feel that I don´t know at all, or maybe I can´t say in words why I think this is a beautiful image (the same applies to everything that's beautiful), but often it's fun to contemplate it.

/ Matilda Lorentsson

11june2018