Form and History 'Form and History' is the title of a book by the French Cubist painter, Albert Gleizes. The intention of this site is to encourage interest in principles of construction in art, arguing with Gleizes that what characterises a distinctively religious art is not the subject matter but the quality of contemplation which, whether there is a subject or not, or whatever the subject is, is reflected in the essentially non-representational organisation of lines and colours. The site is being maintained in conjunction with the 'Painting and its Laws' series published by Francis Boutle publishers. Albert Gleizes and his School - a selection of articles, documentary material and photographs of works (last updated September 2009)
Karyl Knee: The dynamic symmetry proportional system is found in some Byzantine and Russian icons of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries Analysis of a number of icons together with a general introduction to the school of Jay Hambidge and the principles of 'dynamic symmetry'. Includes bibliography and general chronology.
An experiment in iconography: An attempt to use Albert Gleizes' 'translation-rotation' schema as the basis for the construction of traditional icon-design.