I've been studying the effects of patterns recently as well. There importance in art is enormous. However perfect symmetry is not necessarily a more desirable shape to the human eye. Da Vinci thought the key to beauty in nature was the golden mean. I suspect there is much more unexplored territory regarding patterns. My pursuit of beauty is still a mystery to me. I can draw a beautiful face but yet I do not know what makes it beautiful. A lateral view of the face can also be beautiful. Beauty is a complex association with patterns. I personally think that light and shadow patterns are also keys to beauty. This might be the missing ingredient that Da Vinci was searching for. Patterns in beauty are multi-dimensional.

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My curves are not crazy. ~Henri Matisse

I would like to discuss with you the 'golden mean'
but it's gonna be a lenghty one . of course they're
the unseen formal skeletons of a masterwork .

I'm slowly taking my 'synthellects' into 'full asymmetry'
as you can see . I'm pursuing the 'misdirections based on
my synthellects' .

and patterns ? - that's why there's patterns in decorations
- miniscule imitations of nature to say the least .

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Here is an artist attempting to recreate beauty. She is also creating symmetry. The overriding theme on DA is this pursuit of beauty. Here we have beauty defined as smooth light and shadow and texture. [link]
This is a form of surrealism is it not? And why is the beauty pattern on the right? So perhaps beauty is a direction as well.

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My curves are not crazy. ~Henri Matisse

the idealistic setting of beauty , and what varied ideals we each have .
if she passed that bit of threshold for me , say - distorting eyes on the 'directional version' ,
then i could call her 'dabbling' with surrealism .

look in one of my favourites' folders for "the waking dreams of mariana" - in it are
good uses of the image of the artist as starting point for subconcious re-imaginings.

dadaism too is where any experimental venture could draw from .
such beauties of madness from the likes of max ernst and marcel duchamp ,
- photomanips of man ray .

i'd linger in certain forms if i think that it could momentarilly defy reason and expectations

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Well it's bound to happen that I'm going to be influenced by abstract art at some point. I have that kind of personality anyway. I flit from one thing to the next. But in my fourth year it seems I'm still exploring humanity. I'm practicing repetition it seems. Always the same subject but a different approach. Watching patterns. Learning what it means to create and be spontaneous. I never had any art experience as a kid so I can't draw on anything from my past. I'm slowing unraveling. Trying my hardest to loosen up. Too many years in school. I'm constantly looking for formulas when I should be throwing them away.

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My curves are not crazy. ~Henri Matisse