Or more specifically when people apply it to compositions after the event and go ‘oooooh, look, they’ve used golden section to compose it. How clever’. You can literally put it on any painting or photograph and it’s going to line up with some bits of it. It’s the compositional equivalent of horoscopes.
Bit of a niche one:
Golden section / Fibonacci spiral.
Or more specifically when people apply it to compositions after the event and go ‘oooooh, look, they’ve used golden section to compose it. How clever’. You can literally put it on any painting or photograph and it’s going to line up with some bits of it. It’s the compositional equivalent of horoscopes.