Math+Art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMmq5B1LKDg

I really enjoyed looking over this week's lecture about Math and Art video. I enjoyed it because i can easily relate to it due to the fact my grandpa is an architect and I used to always go to work with him when i was little. I was fascinated by all the shapes and math that makes architecture what it is. It's definitely not an easy job to have and I used to make it hard on my grandpa by messing up all his drawings and all his plans! Math and art are the fundamentals of architecture.  You need math in order to precisely size the buildings you help build and you need art for your drawing to make your plan come to life.

http://flavorwire.com/330293/10-amazing-examples-of-architecture-inspired-by-mathematics

A picture of a building plan for an architect

                                        

                                   The Parthenon in Greece                                              Mona Lisa

The Golden Rectangle is brought to light in the lecture video below. I found this quite interesting because even though i see these two images above quite often, I never noticed the patterns they possess. Math plays a huge part in art, It makes it proportional and just overall makes a picture or building better. In the lecture video, the professor describes how important proportions are to a art.  The pyramids of Giza would have never been able to be created without mathematical calculations, its such a beautiful sight!This idea the Golden Rectangle is vital to the subjects of Math and Art.

                                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMmq5B1LKDg
                                       

Pyramids of Giza

http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/emat6680/parveen/Math_and_Art.htm

In the reading called "Flatland" by Edwin A. Abbott, Abbott describes angles and how points of views are vital. In Part 1, Section 1, he talks about how things further away from us seem more transverse and flat but if you actually get closer to it, it looks way different.  When i was little, i used to play outside in a field, it was pretty big sometimes when things looked flat from a distance and then when you finally go up to it its much more detailed and not flat. i used think that was so cool!Perspective is key in the way we see things, and it matters.

         http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/eaa/F01.HTM

An idea of "Flatland"


Citation:  

Parveen, Nihkat. "MATHEMATICS AND ART." MATHEMATICS AND ART. The University of Georgia, 2008. Web. 10 Apr. 2016.
Abbott, Edwin A. "Section 1 Of the Nature of Flatland." 1, Flatland, by E. A. Abbott, 1884. Princeton University, 1991. Web. 10 Apr. 2016.
Nastasi, Alison. "10 Amazing Examples of Architecture Inspired by Mathematics." Flavorwire 10 Amazing Examples of Architecture Inspired ByMathematics Comments. Flavorwire, 20 Sept. 2012. Web. 10 Apr. 2016.