Centric Points Analysis

Good evening most gracious and almighty council. I, Plato, as well as my colleague Socrates, stand before you today, to propose our idea of how the city hall ought to be painted. I guarantee you, by the time we are through with this presentation, you will be nothing but convinced to comply with our pitch. In order to achieve a more perfect and ideal society, we must base it solely on justice and human virtue. In order to achieve that, we must have a ruler ship of philosopher kings, as well as queens. These higher beings should mate and reproduce, for rulers of future generations. Being that these are the highest, most important people in the ideal society, they will be the centric point. The centric point, is the area that catches the human eye the quickest, and everything else residing in a painting, seems as though it originated from that centric point. Having the philosopher kings and queens at the centric point will speak to society, and let them know that they are under the leadership of such intellectual beings. …show more content…
These are the men who have been chosen by the guardians, or philosophy kings, and are responsible for defending the city from invaders and keeping the peace at home. since they are “derived” from the philosopher kings, they will be painted diagonally down on both the right and left sides of the centric points, also known as the rays, forming an acute angle. Rays shine down onto a surface, and its almost as if they support the centric point. Having the position of being diagonal from the centric point, conveys the message that the auxiliaries are there to protect the people, and “trickle down” from the philopsher