Week 2 Blog


Much like math has greatly influenced our lives over time, it has also played a great role in how art is perceived by an individual. There are many different dimensions and perspectives altering the depths and shapes present in works of art. Marc Frantz posits that math and art combine to form a vanishing point, which creates distance in the painting. This can be achieved by holding up two wooden skewers and finding their intersection points. In Daina Taimina's article she uses math and science to "knit hyperbolic structures but it quickly becomes unmanageable with so many stitches on the needles." In addition, after reading M. C. Escher article, many of his mathematical ideas that led to capture the principle of non-Euclidean system. The non-Euclidean system "consists of two geometries based on axioms closely related to those specifying Euclidean geometry."

The definition of art is the "expression or application of human creative skill and imagination and the definition of geometry is the perspectives of solids, lines, surfaces, points, and higher dimensional analogs." These two different definitions of geometry and art relate to many artist ideas. According to Robert J. Lang, the variety of shapes found in Origami demonstrate the uniqueness of art and geometry combined.


Because of this week’s articles/lectures regarding the relationships between artists and math, I learned about the different geometrical shapes and how they’re used in art. Origami exemplifies how math and art correlate to each other. In addition, the movie Good Will Hunting, is another good example to show math and art correlate with each other. The filmmaking of this movies is art itself because of how they depict the plot and characters to use the art of mathematics throughout the film.



After reading the articles this week, I would explain juxtaposition of math and art on what we learned in week 1 of the “two cultures.” But I would put juxtaposition as the “third culture” that created the mutual relationship. 

-Kyle Molnar

Citations

Escher, MC. Stars. 1948. Photograph. Math AcademyWeb. 12 Oct 2012 <http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/minitext/escher/big.asp?IMAGE=stars>.

"Good Will Hunting+images - Google Search." Good Will Hunting+images Google Search. N.p., n.d. Web. Apr. 2017

Franz, Marc, 2000. "Lesson 3: Vanishing Points and Looking at Art." N.p., n.p. Web

Lang, J. Robert. Lang Origami. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2017.

Taimina, Daina. "Contributions." Contributors Crochet Coral Reef. N.p., n.pd. Web. 17 Apr. 2017.

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