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.
Nanotechnology is an area of research that Professor Vesna has been closely involved with especially the past decade. Gimzewski who is also a professor at UCLA shares the power of nanotechnology and its ability to alter our word. I h onestly had never heard of nanotechnology, but after watching all the lectures I realize how applicable it is in day to day life. There are thousands of nanotech products in the market all with many different uses. Nanoscience and nanotechnology involve the ability to see and to control individual atoms and molecules. Everything on Earth is made up of atoms—the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the buildings and houses we live in, and our own bodies. Nanotechnology Nanomedicine as a field is leading to new forms of therapy and treatment which promises to revolutionize medicine such as help discover tumors before they are untreatable or unpreventable Nanotechnology is so new, no one is really sure what will come of it. Even so, predi...
Faith, I thought your analysis of the importance of perspective and space in art in relation to mathematics was very interesting. I especially enjoyed the way that you incorporated the discussion of content and form, and how it affects emotion. It made me think about the emotion brought about by the appearance of art, and how art's purpose is to make us think deeper about the world around us.
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