Unit 2: Math + Art
For the longest time, I had a hard time wrapping my brain around the integration of math and art.
Personally, math is a subject that is exact with definite answers while art really doesn't have a single answer. Art can be different for every person and carry meanings by perception.
Math in Paper Folding
However, one of the articles/demonstration of origami challenged my presumption. Robert J. Lang's origami explained how origami exhibit many forms of math. Many of the beautiful origamis require precision and each crease patterns form shapes such as polypolyhedra. This shows that even the making of a single origami requires the geometric calculations of math.
Leonardo Da Vinci + Math
In the lecture video, Professor Vesna talks about Leonardo Da Vinci's use of math in his artworks through perspective. She states how he created mathematical formulas to find the relationship between the eye of object and distance and the intersecting planes. The famous painting of the Last Supper is a demonstration of natural relative size where objects are the "same size as they lie on the circle".
Architecture
Mathematics and architecture have been intertwined since the Renaissance period when architecture took on a bloom. The improved learning of applied mathematics helped the architects build big structures such as the pyramids and temples. For example, they studied to find the proportion or ratios that was pleasing to the eye.
From this week's focus on math + art, I was able to gain a better knowledge of how math, science, and art are intricately connected. Besides needing math for exact measurements, math was also used in art to make buildings or paintings that are aesthetically pleasing to the human eye.
Personally, math is a subject that is exact with definite answers while art really doesn't have a single answer. Art can be different for every person and carry meanings by perception.
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However, one of the articles/demonstration of origami challenged my presumption. Robert J. Lang's origami explained how origami exhibit many forms of math. Many of the beautiful origamis require precision and each crease patterns form shapes such as polypolyhedra. This shows that even the making of a single origami requires the geometric calculations of math.
Leonardo Da Vinci + Math
In the lecture video, Professor Vesna talks about Leonardo Da Vinci's use of math in his artworks through perspective. She states how he created mathematical formulas to find the relationship between the eye of object and distance and the intersecting planes. The famous painting of the Last Supper is a demonstration of natural relative size where objects are the "same size as they lie on the circle".
Architecture
Mathematics and architecture have been intertwined since the Renaissance period when architecture took on a bloom. The improved learning of applied mathematics helped the architects build big structures such as the pyramids and temples. For example, they studied to find the proportion or ratios that was pleasing to the eye.
From this week's focus on math + art, I was able to gain a better knowledge of how math, science, and art are intricately connected. Besides needing math for exact measurements, math was also used in art to make buildings or paintings that are aesthetically pleasing to the human eye.
Works Cited:
Lang, Robert. "Polypolyhedra in Origami." Polypolyhedra in Origami | Robert J. Lang Origami. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Apr. 2017.
Meisner, Gary. "Da Vinci and the Divine Proportion in Art Composition." Goldennumber.net. N.p., 7 July 2014. Web. 25 Apr. 2017.
"Renaissance Architecture." The Mathematics of Building the Dream. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Apr. 2017.
Vesna, Victoria. “Mathematics-pt1-ZeroPerspectiveGoldenMean.mov.” Cole UC online. Youtube, 9 April 2012. Web. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMmq5B1LKDg&feature=player_embedded>
Vesna, Victoria. "Math Intro" Cole UC online. Youtube, 24 Apr. 2017. Web. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHiL9iskUWM&feature=player_embedded>.
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