Circles and Squares: The Lives and Art of the Hampstead Modernists

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Despite all the comings and goings, all three artists found time to practise their tennis, with Winifred perfecting what Ben called “a very pretty stroke”. What really threw a spanner in the works was the birth of triplets to Ben and Barbara in 1934. This was the sort of corporeal reality that abstract artists might find difficult to absorb. Who was going to look after the babies while Ben developed his “constructivist” painting and Barbara concentrated on her pebble-smooth sculptures? The nanny, of course. One of the happier results of the flatlined economy of the 1930s was that there was always a “local girl” around whether you were in Hampstead or St Ives, to mop floors and wipe noses. The Brown Butter Cinnamon Buns are only available on weekends and have been a fan favourite for months.

Circles and Squares: The Lives and Art of the Hampstead Circles and Squares: The Lives and Art of the Hampstead

The side length S of the square will be about 41% larger than the radius of the circle (√2 is about 1.41). So, what do you need to know about squares vs circles? Squares & circles are both shapes with a center point. A square is a polygon with 4 sides, but a circle is not a polygon. Each shape only needs one measurement (side length/radius) to find the size (perimeter & area). We can find the dimensions of squares & circles with the same perimeter or area.In the Zen Buddhist philosophy, a circle stands for enlightenment and perfection in unity with the primal principles. Circles are sometimes symbols of the Judeo-Christian God and sanctity, appearing as haloes. In Chinese symbology, the circle represents the heavens. Geometric shapes—triangles, circles, squares, stars—have been part of human religious symbolism for thousands of years, long before they became part of scientific endeavors and construction projects by the Egyptians and Greeks. The simplest shapes are found in nature and are used by many different cultures around the world to represent a wide variety of meanings.Shape symbols range from common circles and squares and triangles to more obscure shapes such as unicursal hexagrams.

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Solving for S, we get S = R√π. So, if we choose a radius R for a circle, we can choose a side length of S = R√π to get a square and a circle with the same area. Crosses commonly represent the earth and the physical universe, particularly in Western culture, primarily from two associations: the four physical elements (earth, water, air, and fire) and the four cardinal directions (north, south, east, and west). The astrological symbol for Earth is a cross inside a circle. This symbol,also known as a sun cross or solar wheel, has been associated with the sun and its four seasons. Let’s say we have a square with a side length of S = 5. For a circle with the same perimeter, what would the radius be?

The Isokon building in Hampstead, London, a refuge for Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius. Photograph: UrbanImages/Alamy If we split a circle into enough equal “slices”, they start to resemble triangles. Each triangle has a base of 2πR/N and a height of R, giving an area of πR 2/N for each triangle. Since there are N triangles, the area of the circle is πR 2. Square & Circle With The Same Area By the formula above, the radius is R = 2S/π = 2(5)/π = 10/π (about 3.18). We can verify as follows: Together and separately John and Myfanwy Piper worked through the implications of the move towards pure form that they witnessed in the work of contemporaries including Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and Nash. The Pipers worried that their erstwhile friends’ lofty, depersonalised approach to object and image-making actually constituted a political dereliction in these increasingly desperate times. In The Painter’s Object, Myfanwy included a reproduction of Picasso’s Guernica, which violently depicts the destruction of humanity by aerial bombardment during the Spanish civil war. Its brilliant horror was enough to nudge John Piper away from abstraction and towards a figuration of ordinary, everyday things, which he now reported seeing with a new intensity. Where once Piper’s landscapes had been as spare as an architect’s plans, now they bristled with churches, trees and monuments – all those dear sights that would soon be at risk of wartime obliteration.