The topic of this week is math and art. As
a math major student, I believe that math, as a basic tool, can be used in
Finance, Physics, chemistry and other scientific area. But I never thought math
also has extensive use in art area before I take this class. This week’s study
tells me we can combine math and art well and also study both of them well. In
this week’s lecture, Professor Vesna talked about many applications of mathematical
technique in art such as perspectives, golden ratio and vanishing point. People
also easily believe that if one do math well, he or she won’t also study art
well. But professor Vesna said according to her experience that is not true and
R. Buckminster Fuller also states “Everyone is bone a genius, but the
processing of living de-geniuses them”. Math and art have divergence but it
doesn't mean that you will lose talent for art if you study in math and vice
versa. You just never explore your talent for another field.
The most famous example of perfect combination
of art and math must be Leonardo da Vinci. He is considered to be one of the
greatest painter and also a mathematician. He proved that art and math are not
against each other at all. As I mentioned in my last blog, golden ratio is
widely used for design and Leonardo da Vinci also applied it in Mona Lisa and Last Supper.
Another good example is Andy Gilmore, a
designer who is famous for using geometric elements in his work. Most of Andy’s works are quite simple: He use only simple
geometric graph to create mysterious and illusive pictures. From the following
pictures, we can obviously feel strong visual impact from these geometric
combinations.
Leonardo da Vinci used golden ratio and Andy Gilmore
used geometric combination. They shows us that math and art are not against each other and you can combine them
well. So it seems at first glance to be true that Math and Art have more
divergence than convergence, but when we go further in this topic and find more
good examples of their combinations, we will learn juxtaposition of art, math
and science are more important than we though. Art contains math and math can
create art.
Sources:
Vesna, Victoria. “Mathematics.” Lecture. CoLE DESMA 9. Web. <https://cole.uconline.edu/~UCLA-201209-12F-DESMA-9-1#l=Week-2-Assignment/id4287887>.
Fuller, R. Buckminster. "Education Automation." Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. 1962.
The Golden ratio and the Mona Lisa.
Phi and the Golden ratio in Art.
The Andy Gilmore's collection
Xiangbo, like you I never thought of math and art correlating with one another before this lecture. It is interesting to read about the point of view of another, who is on the opposite side of the spectrum (I am a design major). Similarly too, examples I used were in the same range as the golden ratio within still life drawings. After making this observation, I wondered if our views can go even further, even deeper inside the relationship with math and science. Is it possible to see areas of math in relation to math that does not deal with the calculations of spacing? Can we find a deeper root within art that math is the foundation of it? Great blog post.
ReplyDelete-Naree Kae
It is very interesting to read point of view from math major student. I talked about golden ratio in my blog too. But I didn't expand the point as wide as you did. The golden ratio is definitely a strong proof for the close relationship of math and art. I'm looking forward to getting to know more paintings with golden ratio.
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