Week 2: Math & Art

This week from all the various readings, websites, TedTalks I learned of the rich and significant history of art and science and how that has to start to come to life again in the modern day. From the lecture, Professor talks about the one point perspective established by painters like Brunelleschi. A perspective which is created by a balance of scale and what the human eye perceives is very malleable, yet crucial to understanding paintings. Henderson stated, "The apprehension of space and the development of human consciousness are parallel one cannot explore a dimension unless prepared to comprehend it". In other words, it is hard for an unskilled artist like me to draw an image of a hallway with a single vanishing point because I have not mastered mathematical proportions and lines in a way that these artists have in order to illustrate something so accurately. Through Abbott's lens of "Flatland", he would imply that people (men) like Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo Francesco, and Brunelleschi have been able to find the balance between rational thinking and emotions. They are able to illustrate what they see and feel and project that onto canvas through lines and shapes. However, like Abbott says the viewer is limited to what they specifically observe. What contributes to these artists recognition though is their ability to encapsulate what majority of people see or maybe want to see.

 

                                         One Point Perspective                                Vanishing Point

I really enjoyed John Maeda's TedTalk on "How art, tach, and design inform creative leaders". He comments on the relationship between content and form. Changing the scale and font of a word like “fear” could induce more or less emotion. Again just like the one point perspective, changing the scale or appearance of a mere word can change the emotion of the viewer! Maeda also states not getting art means the art is working because art asks questions and leaders also ask questions, many of them that they don't know the answer to.

FEAR

fear

Robert J. Lang's origami art is a perfect rendition of modern day art and science. The repeating patterns of folds called textures paired with the rules of origami we can create folds and new shapes. Thus, through the logical and pattern following regulation of making origami Lang is able to construct unique shapes and objects that are actually insanely cool! Thus, the juxtaposition of art and math is displayed throughout Lang's origami.

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                                                                  Origami Art Origami

Works Cited

Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 1838-1926. Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions. New York :Dover Publications, 19531952. Print.

Lang, Robert. “The Math and Magic of Origami.” TED, www.ted.com/talks/robert_lang_folds_way_new_origami.

Henderson, Linda Dalrymple. “The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern
Art: Conclusion.” Leonardo, vol. 17, no. 3, 1984, pp. 205–210. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1575193.

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Maeda , John, director. How Art, Technology and Design Inform Creative Leaders. TEDGlobal , 2012, www.ted.com/talks/john_maeda_how_art_technology_and_design_inform_creative_leaders/up-next.

Wiek, Andreas, and Joachim Sauter. “Chronos XXI, 2017.” ART+COM Studios Art En Project 

Department, 1998, artcom.de/en/department/art-en/.