Creation of Adam by Michelangelo

As we discussed in class, although Alberti says the order is important for artistic creations to be seen beautiful, perfect symmetry is mostly not preferable. For example, we talked about why in Creation of Adam there is no symmetry and we concluded that too much perfection is not beautiful. To see if asymmetry is really more beautiful than the perfect symmetry, I searched symmetrized faces of celebrities and it really shows that asymmetry is better than perfect symmetry. Here are some examples:

Normal                                                     Symmetrical 

                                            

Normal                                               Symmetrical 

                                            

Normal                                                Symmetrical

                                   

      

For more symmetrical face examples you can visit this website: Perfected Faces Website