Before watching this weeks lectures, I had actually never considered the fact that math is such an integral part of art, especially in architecture. Throughout history, artists and mathematicians have constantly learned from each other in order to improve their own theories and creations. There are so many measurements and mathematical procedures, such as the golden ratio, to create proportions and dimensions for each piece of art that take into consideration the way that viewers see the objects as well, with the vanishing point theory. From the links on the website, the one that caught my attention was “The Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher” because I remember seeing so many pieces of his artwork hung in my math classrooms all throughout middle and high school. I remember how intriguing they were, but it had never occurred to me that they had anything to do with math. Escher used basic patterns of simple polygons to create tessellations, “applying what is called reflections, g...
Comments
Post a Comment