Rules! Golden Ratios and Spirals! What does this have to do with art? Designer – Mark Gatter – explains how visual principles have guided artists and designers since the beginning of time. See how these universal concepts apply to you and your art...
Sometimes art and graphics just seem to work. They’re balanced. They feel comfortable and they just naturally fill up the allotted space in a way that makes it seem like everything is right in the world.

That’s because they follow proven rules that have guided artists since the beginning of time. Learning these concepts, as it turns out, may be some of the most important techniques an aspiring artist, architect and graphic designer will ever master!

In this course graphic designer and art history expert Mark Gatter explores the visual principles like the Rule of Thirds and the Golden Ratio and explains how they influence the visual arts across many disciplines. What's really interesting about this course is that as soon as you get to know them, you will soon be noticing them in almost everything that your see around you... even in nature!

So get ready to master all of these amazing principles and start incorporating them into to the the way you create your art.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Initial Problems
3. The Reality - Early Restoration Attempts
4. More Damage & Restoration Attempts
5. Da Vinci’s Original “Cartoons”
6. The Mona Lisa
7. The Medici
8. Cosimo de Medici
9. The Importance of the Renaissance
10. Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Perspective
11. Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo Lippi and Donatello
12. San Marco
13. Caravaggio’s Use of Light
14. The Rule of Thirds
15. The Golden Ratio
16. The Golden Spiral
17. The Golden Ratio in Faces
18. The Golden Ratio in Architecture
19. The Golden Rectangle and the Parthenon
20. The Golden Ratio Throughout History