Radical Impressionist: A Mathematician Paints

 General Overview of Dynamic Symmetry Description, Historic Paintings and Contemporary Paintings, Dynamic Symmetry in Practice. Screenshots of Presentation with some notes.  (Enter Full Screen for best viewing). “.. Dynamic Symmetry. .. may be described briefly as the type of symmetry found in a natural organism, in the placing of leaves on a stem, in the architecture of the human body, always suggesting life and movement as opposed to static symmetry which suggests order without the potentiality of change. Mr. Hambidge and others working with him have found that the dynamic type of symmetry was used by the Greeks, who inherited it from the Egyptians and developed it in their art during the classic period with varying degrees of elaboration”—New York Times, Sunday, June 10, 1923 (as quoted In Dynamic Symmetry in Composition by Jay Hambidge pg 53) Dynamic Symmetry can be viewed as a tool. Its versatility may sugg...