Three Spanish Figures United in the Ancient Greek Concept of Beauty

The philosophers in ancient Greece considered the spiral to be the form that best illustrated perfect harmony. Faultless examples can be found everywhere in nature, i.e. in snail shells; sunflowers; pine cones; curly hair; hurricanes surrounding the eye at their center; … And, yes, making the journey from an invisible sample of our DNA to the unfathomable size of the universe, even galaxies take on the form of spirals.

Within the spiral in this painting, the figures that have had the most influence on art and painting in the 20th century can be found: the cube, the circle and the horn of a rhinoceros.

This trinity of geometric figures were presented in their field by the three most important figures of Spanish origin at the time, namely Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Salvador Dalí. Each one of these artists gave the perception of the Greek philosophers his own version of perfection.