A dialogue with ancient treatise writers: on geometry and contemporary pictorial processes

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https://doi.org/10.5965/244712671012024277

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painting, studio practice, composition, geometry, golden sectiojn

Abstract

There is a winning aesthetic movement in the twentieth century. It imposed itself above all the others. This movement is the expressionism. Its razing predominance, as universal aesthetic proposal, has been asserted with all its variants in much of the contemporary art system and, concurrently, in many teaching practices of visual arts schools. Given that in our teaching practice we detect obvious difficulties expressed by visual arts students regarding pictorial composition, we propose a contemporary re-reading, study and reinterpretation of the geometric processes used in various ways by the ancient masters.

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Leonardo Charréu, Polytechnical Institute of Lisbon

Leonardo Charréu has a degree in Fine Arts, Painting, from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (1990), a master's degree in History of Art from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon (1995) and a doctorate in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona, Spain (2004). He holds a post-doctorate from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (2021). He was a lecturer at the University of Évora (1994-2013) and the Federal University of Santa Maria in Brazil (2013-2016). He is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Training and Research in Arts and Design at the School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, and is also a guest lecturer on the MA in Art Education at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. He has also been a visiting professor at various European, American and Latin American universities. His research interests, covered in more than a hundred publications, cover a broad spectrum of topics ranging from Art Education and Art Theory and Visual Culture, to critical and cultural pedagogy and scientific illustration, as well as emerging research methodologies in education and the arts.

 

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2024-06-01

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CHARRÉU, Leonardo. A dialogue with ancient treatise writers: on geometry and contemporary pictorial processes. Revista Apotheke, Florianópolis, v. 10, n. 1, p. 277–291, 2024. DOI: 10.5965/244712671012024277. Disponível em: https://revistas.udesc.br/index.php/apotheke/article/view/24989. Acesso em: 13 oct. 2025.

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Vol. 10 No. 1 (2024): Between approaches, methods and methodologies

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