STEFAN ARTENI

Perspective as Form and Medium

and
the Interplay of Proportion Systems
and Perspective

XXI

SolInvictus Press 2006

Juan Gris (Jose Victoriano Gonzalez)
Composition based on the armature of the rectangle
[diagram by Charles Bouleau]
Georges Braque
 Gino Severini

Art is nothing but humanized science.

Philosophers and aestheticians may offer

elegant and profound definitions of art and
beauty, but for the painter they are all
summed up in the phrase: To create a
harmony.
Gino Severini
Diagrams from Gino Severini’s La Divina Proporzione ed altri Rapporti d’Armonia
nelle Arti (1941) republished in Gino Severini, Dal Cubismo al Classicismo (1972)
 Wall painting

Maquette and composition schema

for a mosaic in Alessandria’s
Postal Palace - 1937
Maquette for mural
Maquettes for fresco
Mosaic Root 3 based composition
[From Maurizio Nicosia,
Il Lato Operaio dell’Arte.
Severini e la pittura murale]
 Mosaic (fragment)

Mosaic

Fribourg
University
mural
(fragment)
Mosaic
Jacques Villon
Giorgio Morandi