Golden Rectangle and Wonders World - Table of Content

Geraldo de Barros 1952: Movement Counter Movement, Golden Rectangles.
Geraldo de Barros (1923 -1998) used Gestalt theory to create works that draw upon the viewer's psychology to suggest that their paintings are in motion. Source: Newark Museum.

Joaquín Torres-García 1934: Locomotive with Constructive House.
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Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-50s. Exhibition at Newark Museum and Amon Carter Museum.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1566: The Fire, Oil on Wood.
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Hendrick Avercamp: Winter Landscape with Iceskaters.
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Albrecht Altdorfer: The Battle of Alexander at Issus.
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Prometheus Bound by Peter Paul Rubens.
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Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Lerma by Peter Paul Rubens.
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'Garden of Geometry' by Mike Worrall and Golden Rectangle.

Numbers, Geometry, Fibonacci Spiral, Golden Rectangles.

'View of Notre-Dame' by Henri Matisse and Golden Rectangle.
View of Notre-Dame is an oil painting by Henri Matisse from 1914. Pentimenti reveal that it was originally painted in a more detailed manner before it was radically simplified into a geometric composition.

Surfing: Tube Ride.

Surfing: Geometry of tube shape.

Surfing: Tube Ride 3 and Golden Rectangles.

Surfing: Tube Ride 2 and Golden Rectangles.

Hawa Mahal (Palace of Winds).

Avatar, Neytiri, princess of the Omaticaya, and Golden Rectangle.

The United States Capitol rotunda.

Jimbaran, Bali, Acintya.

Pigeons Rock, Raouche, Beirut.

Pigeons Rock, Raouche, Beirut.

Pigeons Rock, Raouche, Beirut.

The 2010 Ford Mustang.

The 2010 Chevy Camaro.

Atlanta MARTA: Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority and Golden Rectangles.
MARTA is the principal rapid-transit system in the Atlanta metropolitan area and the ninth-largest in the United States.

Toronto: Sheppard Line TTC and Golden Rectangles.
The Sheppard Line is the newest subway line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission.

Rose Window at Church of St Matthias, Richmond. Golden Rectangles.

North Rose Window at Chartres Cathedral. Golden Rectangles.

Rose window at Strasbourg Cathedral. Golden Rectangles.

Josef Albers, Grid Mounted, 1921 and the Golden Rectangle
Pioneer of Geometric abstraction.

Josef Albers, Red and White, 1923 and the Golden Rectangle
Pioneer of Geometric abstraction.

San Blas Church and Golden Rectangles.
South side door, Cuzco.

Coricancha Windows within Windows.
The Coricancha was the most important temple in the Inca Empire.
Golden Rectangles, Trapezoids.
Cuzco Index.

The Roman Colosseum 3
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The Roman Colosseum 2
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The Roman Colosseum 1
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Inca Tocapu 1 and Golden Rectangles.
Tocapu: Small square script found on Incan textiles and wooden vases.

Self-portrait with Isabella Brant by Peter Paul Rubens.

Portrait of Isabella Brant by Peter Paul Rubens.

Dance of the Villagers by Peter Paul Rubens.

The Kermesse by Peter Paul Rubens.

Refuge by Paul Klee.
Paul Klee was a Swiss-German artist known for the fine lines and playful geometry in his childlike watercolors and illustrations.

Black and Violet (1923) by Wassily Kandinsky and the Golden Rectangle.

Chan Chan: Sea Otters on the Wall 2.
Trujillo, Peru.

Chan Chan: Wall.
Trujillo, Peru.

Chan Chan: Fishes on the Wall.
Trujillo, Peru.

Chan Chan: Seat in the main courtyard.
Trujillo, Peru.

Chan Chan: Sea Otters on the Wall 1.
Trujillo, Peru.

Apollo 11's launch.
On July 16, 1969, exactly 40 years ago, the Saturn V rocket with the Apollo 11 mission on board was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission would have brought the man on the Moon for the first time..

Theseus and the Minotaur Labyrinth. Golden Rectangles.

Sacred Geometry: Mandala.
Tibetan 'Five Deity Mandala', 17th Century.

Pablo Picasso - Index.
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Yellow, Red, Blue (1925) by Wassily Kandinsky and the Golden Rectangle.

Guernica by Pablo Picasso.
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Weeping Woman, 1937, by Pablo Picasso.
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Sleeping Peasants, La Siesta, by Pablo Picasso.
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The Doves, 1957, by Pablo Picasso.
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Soldier and a Laughing Girl.
by Johannes Vermeer

View of Houses in Delft, known as "The Little Street".
by Johannes Vermeer

Woman with a Balance by Johannes Vermeer.

Perspective in Motion by Evany Fanzeres.

Rectangle. Theorems and Problems Index.

Snowflakes: Hexagonal Symmetry and the Golden Rectangle.
The individual ice crystals often have hexagonal symmetry.

The Pinwheel Galaxy (Messier M101 or NGC 5457).
Why do many galaxies appear as spirals? A striking example is M101, whose relatively close distance of about 27 million light years allows it to be studied in some detail.

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer.
It is sometimes referred to as "the Mona Lisa of the North" or "the Dutch Mona Lisa".

Salvador Dali Index.

Morphological Echo (1934-36) by Salvador Dali.
It depicts a seemingly minimal architectural setting with several surrealist images in its finer details.

Crucifixion, Corpus Hypercubus (1954) by Salvador Dali.
Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) was painted in 1954 by Salvador Dali, and depicts the crucified Jesus upon the net of a hypercube.

The Swallow's Tail - Series on Catastrophes (1983) by Salvador Dali.
The Swallow's Tail - Series on Catastrophes was the last painting of Salvador Dali, done in May 1983. It is the final work in a series based on René Thom's catastrophe theory.

The Ghost of Vermeer by Salvador Dali.
The title refers to the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and the image of Vermeer viewed from his back is a reference to Vermeer's painting The Art of Painting.

The Ascension of Christ by Salvador Dali.
Dali said that his inspiration for The Ascension of Christ came from a "cosmic dream" that he had in 1950, some eight years before the painting was completed. In the dream, which was in vivid color, he saw the nucleus of an atom, which we see in the background of the painting.

The Triumph of Bacchus by Diego Velazquez and Golden Rectangles.
The Triumph of Bacchus is a 1629 painting by Velázquez, now in the Prado in Madrid, showing Bacchus surrounded by drunks. It is popularly known as Los borrachos or The Drunks.

Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez and Golden Rectangles.
Las Meninas (Spanish for The Maids of Honour) is a 1656 painting by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age, in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.

IC 4406: A Seemingly Square Nebula.
Evidence indicates that IC 4406 is likely a hollow cylinder, with its square appearance the result of our vantage point in viewing the cylinder from the side.
Credit: C. R. O'Dell (Vanderbilt U.) et al., Hubble Heritage Team, NASA

Piet Mondrian, Lozenge Composition with Red, Black, Blue, and Yellow 1925.
Pioneer of Geometric abstraction.

Tiruchirapalli Rock Fort and Golden Rectangles.
Tiruchirapalli Rock Fort is an historic fort and temple complex built on an ancient rock situated in the town of Tiruchirapalli in the state of Tamil Nadu in India.

Singapore North East MRT Line and Golden Rectangles.
The North East MRT Line (NEL) is the third Mass Rapid Transit line in Singapore and the world's first fully-underground, automated and driverless rapid transit line.

Shanghai Metro and Golden Rectangles.
The Shanghai Metro is the urban rapid transit system of China's largest city, Shanghai. The system incorporates both subway and light railway lines.

Asteriod Almahata Sitta 15.
Small asteroid 2008 TC3 fell to Earth at dawn on October 7, 2008, tracking through the skies over the Nubian Desert in northern Sudan. That event was remarkable because it was the first time an asteroid was detected in space before crashing into planet Earth's atmosphere.

Cone Nebula and Golden Rectangles.
The Cone Nebula is located about 2,600 light-years from Earth in the constellation Monoceros and is so named because of its apparent shape.

Teaching Geometry and Donald in Mathmagic Land 2/3

Massacre of the Innocents by Peter Paul Rubens, List of most expensive paintings: $76.2 million.

Piet Mondrian Index, pioneer of Geometric abstraction.

Piet Mondrian, New York City 1941-42 and the Golden Rectangle.
Index.

The Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie 1942-1943 and the Golden Rectangle

Paris Review by Sol LeWitt, Sol LeWitt was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism.
Sol LeWitt Index

The Barolo Chapel or Cappella delle Brunate by Sol LeWitt

Arithmetic Composition, 1929-1930 by Theo van Doesburg, pioneer of Geometric abstraction.

Homage to the Square, 1965 by Josef Albers, pioneer of Geometric abstraction.

Black Diamond, Screenprint, 1978 by Ilya Bolotowsky, pioneer of Geometric abstraction.

Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow by Piet Mondrian, pioneer of Geometric abstraction.

Peru's 'The Milk of Sorrow' Takes Berlin Film Festival Top Award 2009

Ekaterina Gordeeva: 1988 and 1994 Olympic Champion.

Lake Erie: Man Dies and Scores Are Rescued From Erie Ice Floe.

Alex Rodriguez, Major League Baseball player.

James Whitmore died of lung cancer, Friday, Feb. 6, 2009.

Paracas mantle 200 A.D and Golden Rectangles .

Machu Picchu, the Intihuatana stone and Golden Rectangles.

Machu Picchu, Putucusi and Golden Rectangles.

Le Garcon a la Pipe (Boy with a Pipe), Pablo Picasso 1905 . List of most expensive paintings: $104 million.

Irises, Vincent van Gogh, 1889. List of most expensive paintings: $53.9 million.

Dora Maar au Chat (Dora Maar with Cat), Pablo Picasso, 1941. List of most expensive paintings: $95.2 million.

Le Moulin de la Galette, Pierre Auguste Renoir, 1876. List of most expensive paintings: $78 million.

Portrait of Dr. Gachet, van Gogh, 1890. List of most expensive paintings: $82.5 million.

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, Gustav Klimt, 1907. List of most expensive paintings: $135 million.

Woman III, Willem de Kooning, 1953. List of most expensive paintings: $137.5 million.

No. 5, 1948, Jackson Pollock. List of most expensive paintings: $140 million.
Puzzle.

The Persistence of Memory (1931), Salvador Dali.

Tropical Storm Fay.

Michael Phelps and the Golden Rectangle.

Usain Bolt and the Golden Rectangle.

Giza Pyramids and the Golden Rectangle.

Machu Picchu and the Golden Rectangle.

The Golden Rectangle and the Helix Nebula, image of the Helix Nebula, compiled from Hubble telescope and Golden Rectangles.

The Acropolis of Athens and the Golden Rectangle

The Amazon River and the Golden Rectangle
Mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil, Satellite image.

The Galapagos Islands and the Golden Rectangle

The Grand Canyon and the Golden Rectangle

Serengeti Migration and the Golden Rectangle

Stonehenge builders had geometry skills to rival Pythagoras
Five years of detailed research, carried out by the Oxford University landscape archaeologist Anthony Johnson, claims that Stonehenge was designed and built using advanced geometry.

Chichen Itza and the Golden Rectangle.

Great Wall of China and the Golden Rectangle.

Christ the Redeemer and the Golden Rectangle.

Colosseum and the Golden Rectangle.

Petra and the Golden Rectangle.

The Taj Mahal and the Golden Rectangle.

Angkor Wat and the Golden Rectangle.

The Alhambra and the Golden Rectangle.

Statue of Liberty and the Golden Rectangle.

Neuschwanstein Castle and the Golden Rectangle.

Red Square, Moscow and the Golden Rectangle.

The Eiffel Tower and the Golden Rectangle.

The Statue of Zeus at Olympia and the Golden Rectangle.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Golden Rectangle.

The Lighthouse or the Pharos of Alexandria and the Golden Rectangle.

The Colossus of Rhodes and the Golden Rectangle.

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus and the Golden Rectangle.

The Temple of Artemis and the Golden Rectangle.