I high school, I learned a lot in art class about perspectives and how they were related to math. In fact, my favorite part of art class was always coming up with the proper dimensions and perspectives before starting a drawing or painting. Math was always my favorite subject, and I loved using in in art projects. One of my favorite forms of mathematical art have always been fractals. Fractals have always impressed me by how beautiful of art math could really create. Also during lecture, I learned a lot more about the golden rectangle than I ever did in high school. I find it incredible that so many great pieces of art and buildings have perfectly followed the golden rectangle, and that the golden ratio is so commonly found. In Linda Henderson's article, "The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art: Conclusion", she talks about how science and math theory do relate to art. When she mentions Einstein's theory of relativity it really opened up my brain into thinking about what other such famous mathematicians and scientists must have influenced art.
The picture above is one of my favorite fractals. It is such a beautiful piece of art and it is all entirely based off of a simple math ratio repeating itself. Whoever said that math and art don't correlate obviously has never seen such beautiful art like a fractal.
This week the main thing I learned about how artists use math in their paintings is through their perspectives. How each painting or drawing needs to have a center point and all of the lines should go toward that in order to have all of the perspectives right. I think it is very interesting how math is needed to create the right lines and get the perspective of art right.
I would say this week has shown me that although math and art are very different, they compliment each other very well and each one can help the other become so much better.
Picture of 4 dimensions art show which uses math through the art and music to bring out the aesthetics
Origami, a Japanese art form that uses math through specifically folding the right angles on paper to create art.
Resources:
Henderson, Linda. “The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art: Conclusion.” MIT Press. 17.3 (1984): 205-10. Print.
Vesna, Victoria. “Math + Art.” Lecture 2.
Ench Gallery. http://www.enchgallery.com/fractals/fractalpages/jam%202.htm. 2011. Web.
Nathan Selikoff. http://nathanselikoff.com/files/2013/06/nathan-selikoff-artwork-026.jpg 2012. Web.
Design Beep http://designbeep.designbeep.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/27.origami-art.jpg 2009. Web.
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