{"id":2267,"date":"2007-06-17T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-17T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2007-06-17T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T23:30:00","slug":"2267","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2267","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>ART SYMMETRY<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Something completely different. The youtube clip below (hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/thoughts-illustrated.blogspot.com\/\">Dave Davison<\/a>)is a stunning visual mash-up of famous female faces throughout the history of Western Art.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nUDIoN-_Hxs\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nUDIoN-_Hxs\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>What struck me was the consistency with which <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Symmetry\">symmetry<\/a><\/strong> was a critical element in the conception of female beauty. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmosmagazine.com\/node\/685\">affinity for an even facial structure and large eyes in fellow humans <\/a>may be more of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accelerated-learning-online.com\/research\/average-symmetric-faces-attractive-infants-discrimination-looking.asp\">&#8220;hard-wired&#8221;<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceresearch.org\/students\/lectures\/symmetry.pdf\">brain preference <\/a>than a simple cultural affectation of Westerners.<\/p>\n<p>Who should your spokesperson be ? If they are going to be presenting in visual mediums, then it would help your message if they have a symmetrical face. Your vision is framed more powerfully than any words you may hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ART SYMMETRY Something completely different. The youtube clip below (hat tip to Dave Davison)is a stunning visual mash-up of famous female faces throughout the history of Western Art. What struck me was the consistency with which symmetry was a critical element in the conception of female beauty. This affinity for an even facial structure and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,385,215,64,383,63,61,259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-history","category-culture","category-davison","category-symmetry","category-thoughts-illustrated","category-visualization","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}