This week Prof. Vesna talked about the relationship between art and math. Before this week, I thought that art and math are completely different from each other, primarily due to the impression that people who are good at math often do poorly in arts and vice versa. But now I believe that art and math are inseparable. In fact, there was no real art until math is utilized in the process of creating art.
How to portray three-dimensional space on a two dimensional canvas was a problem for artists in the past. Brunelleschi is seen to be the first person in the west to solve the problem by using correct formulation of linear perspective and discovering the vanishing point. He was able to calculate the scale of things in accordance to distance. Brunelleschi is also famous for his construction of the doom of the Florence Cathedral shown below.
Leonardo da Vinci is an artist whose work incorporated math very well. He distinguished the artificial perspective and natural perspective. His famous work includes
The Last Supper and
Mona Lisa. Mona Lisa is also a classic example of the use of golden ratio, which is referred to as "the ultimate connection of math and art" by Prof. Vesna.
Sources
da Vinci, L. Mona Lisa. Retrieved from http://www.davincilife.com/mona-lisa.jpg
da Vinci, L. The Last Supper. Retrieved from http://www.leonardoda-vinci.org/The-Last-Supper-1498.jpg
Florence Cathedral Dome. Retrieved from http://www.passports.com/sites/default/files/brunelleschi___s_dome_on_the_florence_duomo_(cathedral)1351780530236.png
Nielsen, I., Landa, A., & Shutterstock,. (2014). Mathematical Masterpieces: Making Art From Equations. Retrieved from http://discovermagazine.com/~/media/Images/Issues/2014/April/Math%20art%20gallery/math-cover.jpg?mw=1000&mh=800
Vesna, V. (2012). Mathematics-pt1-ZeroPerspectiveGoldenMean.mov. YouTube. Retrieved 13 April 2015, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMmq5B1LKDg#t=1377
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