Week 2 Math + Art Blog Assignment
The lectures and readings of this week primarily focused on the relationship between math and art, the interaction between these two criteria and the coexistence of art and science on one personality. Both readings and lectures elaborated how artists used art as a tool to portray their understanding of world and space in terms of mathematics. After reading sources and learning from the lecture, I started reconsidering the meaning of the art from artists. For most of the time, surrealism and abstract paintings are nonsense to me, I couldn’t understand their point of view just as I thought they couldn’t understand nothing about science. However, along with this week’s materials, all the paintings has a meaning to me. All of them appreciates some kind of idea from the artists’ mind. There are three pieces of art which provided me the insight:
The first painting is a masterpiece from Salvador Dali, namely The Persistence of Memory. The painting consists of 3 “curved” or “melted” hanging clock. The background of this painting illustrated a desolation scene, along with these 3 clocks, the image presented a feel that time is the only thing that lasts. Also, the “curved” clock could be interpreted as a distorted understanding of space and time, which could be linked to the theory of fourth dimension. The painting impressed me because the artist applied the mathematics based theory of time and space to his creative work in a direct way. The way of painting is highly appreciated in terms of communicating science in the words of art.
The juxtaposition of math, art and science could be interpreted as following: every subject are co-related, there is common sense in between each other, the only difference lies in the way of communicating; it’s the diversity of presenting the commonly appreciated method that determined the varsity of subjects.
References:
"Manifesto of Surrealism". Tcf.ua.edu. 1924-06-08. Retrieved 2012-12-06.
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