Painting by the Numbers: A Porter Postscript
Bridges Donostia: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture
Pages 253–258
Abstract
At the 2005 Bridges conference the author presented a paper titled, Fairfield Porters Secret Geometry. Porter (1907-1975), an important American painter, is known for his naturalness and seems to eschew any system of proportioning. This paper briefly traces other influences on Porters use of geometry in art and offers an analysis of two more of his paintings to reveal detailed and sophisticated geometric structures based on the Golden Ratio and Dynamic Symmetry.