Concept in Definition ABC

The word symmetry has a regular and widespread use in our language and we use it when we want to indicate that it is correct and corresponding proportion of the parts that make up a whole, that is, the proportion will be correct between the parts among themselves and between the whole itself, as regards shape, size and positions.

Meanwhile, it is a term that finds use in various fields and is used to express the satisfactory proportion that exists between the most diverse things and issues.

Since not all people are the same or have the same conception of life and things is that there are substantial differences between one person and another when it comes to feeling symmetry, that is, to an individual symmetry can unveil and it can be an issue that is very present in your life and that is why everything you organize in your home, for example, must be in a perfect symmetry.

While on the other hand there are people who do not assign that relevance that we talked about and then do not it matters if, for example, the tablecloth that covers the table does not fall in perfect proportion on each of its sides.

It is also worth noting that the concept of symmetry is closely related to notions such as that of perfection, harmony and equalityand that is why when someone talks about something symmetrical, they immediately tend to think in something that keeps perfection, equality and harmony in its forms, in its appearance physical.

As a consequence of what has just been explained, the beauty of a face is intimately linked to the symmetry that it presents. That is, a symmetrical face will have the same proportions on one side and the other and when these are confirmed, it will be possible to speak of a beautiful and perfect face.

The popular and talented Italian painter Leonardo da Vinci He knew how to give us a finished sample of the symmetry in his He drew so recognized, Vitruvian man, made towards the end of the XV century. It consists of a male figure without clothes representing two positions of his body, so two pairs of arms and legs can be seen on the geometric figures of the square and a circumference. It is based on a study of the texts that he duly made the architect Marco Vitruvio Polión about the proportions of the man's body.