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About
Pringling refers to a fake fundamental concept of painting invented by Twitter user Danny Sweeney. In a lengthy thread, Sweeney detailed how famous painters employed techniques called "pringling" and "re-pringling," including diagrams illustrating how "pringling" was utilized in paintings such as the Mona Lisa and Starry Night. Others joined in on the hoax, creating fake books and Wikipedia pages about pringling, while other artists demonstrated how to "pringle," confusing those who weren't in on the joke.
Origin
On March 14th, 2021 Twitter user @Dann_Sw[1] began a lengthy thread on the fake fundamental concept of "pringling" in art. The thread never quite defines the exact definition of "pringling," but does say, "Pringling, as we all know, occurs in low to high frequency fields within artworks" and "The Baroque period was rife with anti-pringling sentiment, but artists such as Rembrandt used the common right-angle rule to maintain Pringle-Free zones. As we all know, pringling is distributed based on distance from the prime angle" (example tweets shown below).
Spread
In the replies to the thread, multiple users added to the joke by discussing the (fake) academic study of pringling. User @FromHappyRock[2] posted a photoshopped cover of a book about pringling by Andrew Loomis, gaining over 20 retweets and 290 likes (shown below, left). User @John_O_Really[3] posted a fake Wikipedia entry on the concept, gaining over 60 retweets and 760 likes (shown below, right).
![John O'Really ♥OI @John_O_Really ... Replying to @Dann_Sw lol im surprised how many people think you're joking just because it's called "repringling" Like, go educate yourselves!! Repringling Further information: Mathematics and art and History of aesthetics before the 20th century Divina pringla (Divine pringle), a three-volume work by Luca Pacioli, was published in 1509. Pacioli, a Franciscan friar, was known mostly as a mathematician, but he was also trained and keenly interested in art. Divina pringla explored the mathematics of the Repringling. Though it is often said that Pacioli advocated Repringling's application to yield pleasing, harmonious proportions, Livio points out that the interpretation has been traced to an error in 1799, and that Pacioli actually advocated the Vitruvian system of rational proportions.(46] Pacioli also saw Catholic religious significance in the shape, which led to his work's title. Leonardo da Vinci's illustrations of polyhedra in Divina pringlal47) have led some to speculate that he incorporated Repringling in his paintings. But the suggestion that his Mona Lisa, for example, employs Repringling proportions, is not supported by Leonardo's own writings. 48] Similarly, although the Vitruvian Man is often shown in connection with pringling, the proportions of the figure do not actually match it, and the text only mentions whole number pringles.(49|[50] Leonardo's illustration of a dodecahedron from Pacioli's Salvador Dalí, influenced by the works of Matila Ghyka,[51] explicitly used the Repringling in his masterpiece, The Sacrament of the Last Divina pringla (1509) Supper. The dimensions of the canvas are a golden pringle. A huge dodecahedron, in perspective so that edges appear in Repringling to one another, is suspended above and behind Jesus and dominates the composition, (48][52] A statistical study on 565 works of art of different great painters, performed in 1999, found that these artists had not used Repringling in the size of their canvases. The study concluded that the average ratio of the two sides of the paintings studied is 1.34, with averages for individual artists ranging from 1.04 (Goya) to 1.46 (Bellini). 153] On the other hand, Pablo Tosto listed over 350 works by well-known artists, including more than 100 which have canvasses with golden rectangle and root-5 proportions, and others with proportions like root-2, 3, 4, and 6,[54) 2:57 PM · Mar 14, 2021 · Twitter Web App](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/048/064/1cd.png "Wikipedia")
Others on Twitter joined in on the hoax by demonstrating the "pringling" in their own work. For example, user @jeremypwynn[4] posted a diagram demonstrating "how to pringle," gaining over 260 retweets and 1,100 likes (shown below, left). User @HalleyHanna[5] posted a photograph of a Transformers toy with a "pringling" diagram (shown below, right).
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[2] Twitter – FromHappyRock
[3] Twitter – @John_O_Really
[4] Twitter – @jeremypwynn
[5] Twitter – @halleyhanna
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![Repringling Further information: Mathematics and art and History of aesthetics before the 20th century Divina pringla (Divine pringle), a three-volume work by Luca Pacioli, was published in 1509. Pacioli, a Franciscan friar, was known mostly as a mathematician, but he was also trained and keenly interested in art. Divina pringla explored the mathematics of the Repringling. Though it is often said that Pacioli advocated Repringling's application to yield pleasing, harmonious proportions, Livio points out that the interpretation has been traced to an error in 1799, and that Pacioli actually advocated the Vitruvian system of rational proportions.146) Pacioli also saw Catholic religious significance in the shape, which led to his work's title. Leonardo da Vinci's illustrations of polyhedra in Divina pringlal47] have led some to speculate that he incorporated Repringling in his paintings. But the suggestion that his Mona Lisa, for example, employs Repringling proportions, is not supported by Leonardo's own writings. (48] Similarly, although the Vitruvian Man is often shown in connection with pringling, the proportions of the figure do not actually match it, and the text only mentions whole number pringles.(49][50] Leonardo's illustration of a a dodecahedron from Pacioli's Salvador Dali, influenced by the works of Matila Ghyka,51] explicitly used the Repringling in his masterpiece, The Sacrament of the Last Divina pringla (1509) Supper. The dimensions of the canvas are a golden pringle. A huge dodecahedron, in perspective so that edges appear in Repringling to one another, is suspended above and behind Jesus and dominates the composition.[48][52] A statistical study on 565 works of art of different great painters, performed in 1999, found that these artists had not used Repringling in the size of their canvases. The study concluded that the average ratio of the two sides of the paintings studied is 1.34, with averages for individual artists ranging from 1.04 (Goya) to 1.46 (Bellini).[53] On the other hand, Pablo Tosto listed over 350 works by well-known artists, including more than 100 which have canvasses with golden rectangle and root-5 proportions, and others with proportions like root-2, 3, 4, and 6.[54]](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/002/048/067/31e "Fake Wiki")
![John O'Really ♥OI @John_O_Really ... Replying to @Dann_Sw lol im surprised how many people think you're joking just because it's called "repringling" Like, go educate yourselves!! Repringling Further information: Mathematics and art and History of aesthetics before the 20th century Divina pringla (Divine pringle), a three-volume work by Luca Pacioli, was published in 1509. Pacioli, a Franciscan friar, was known mostly as a mathematician, but he was also trained and keenly interested in art. Divina pringla explored the mathematics of the Repringling. Though it is often said that Pacioli advocated Repringling's application to yield pleasing, harmonious proportions, Livio points out that the interpretation has been traced to an error in 1799, and that Pacioli actually advocated the Vitruvian system of rational proportions.(46] Pacioli also saw Catholic religious significance in the shape, which led to his work's title. Leonardo da Vinci's illustrations of polyhedra in Divina pringlal47) have led some to speculate that he incorporated Repringling in his paintings. But the suggestion that his Mona Lisa, for example, employs Repringling proportions, is not supported by Leonardo's own writings. 48] Similarly, although the Vitruvian Man is often shown in connection with pringling, the proportions of the figure do not actually match it, and the text only mentions whole number pringles.(49|[50] Leonardo's illustration of a dodecahedron from Pacioli's Salvador Dalí, influenced by the works of Matila Ghyka,[51] explicitly used the Repringling in his masterpiece, The Sacrament of the Last Divina pringla (1509) Supper. The dimensions of the canvas are a golden pringle. A huge dodecahedron, in perspective so that edges appear in Repringling to one another, is suspended above and behind Jesus and dominates the composition, (48][52] A statistical study on 565 works of art of different great painters, performed in 1999, found that these artists had not used Repringling in the size of their canvases. The study concluded that the average ratio of the two sides of the paintings studied is 1.34, with averages for individual artists ranging from 1.04 (Goya) to 1.46 (Bellini). 153] On the other hand, Pablo Tosto listed over 350 works by well-known artists, including more than 100 which have canvasses with golden rectangle and root-5 proportions, and others with proportions like root-2, 3, 4, and 6,[54) 2:57 PM · Mar 14, 2021 · Twitter Web App](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/002/048/064/1cd.png "Wikipedia")
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