Math+Art

Math Art

The Study of Mathematics

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

-Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)



[|'TSP Art']is an art where you lay down dots and connect them. You use grids to make an accurate piece.

by Albercht Dürer In his art he used very presice angle degrees. He was also a mathematician who focused on subjects of linear perspectives,geometry in agriculture, 'Platonic solids' and regular polygons.

Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci

The famous italian artist,mathematician, and scientist, Leonardo Da Vinci used a lot of math in the making of the Mona Lisa. He used a lot perspective,balance and depth. It is believed he used 'Golden Rectangles' in his art. 

Reflection Art

"RHYTHMICITY is 84" high, 110" wide and protrudes 10" into space. This consists of three planar surfaces: a canvas and two layers of scrren. Two groups of narrow triangles meet in the centerline of the piece and point up and down. On the first screen the same image is repeated but slightly offset, the front screen frames the image with two groups of triangles pointing to the center from the upper and lower margin. Again the triangles are offset from the previous layer."



<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Dynamic Spirographs by [|benice-equation]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Artist Unknown

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 190%;">Math In Photography



<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"Nature speaks a language, Graziano says, and sometimes that language can look pretty complicated—like the function whose graph mirrors the shape of this pile of sand."

<span style="display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; text-align: center;">"Surrounded by piles of snow last spring, Graziano says she couldn’t help but take some photos like this one."

<span style="display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; text-align: center;">by Nikki Graziano a math & photography student.



<span style="display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; text-align: center;">"Caleb Charland demonstrates the properties of phyics and math using photography tricks...which he does in his camera NOT PhotoShop."



<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"Ceiling of [|Lotfollah mosque], [|Isfahan], [|Iran]. Has rotational symmetry of order 32 and 32 lines of reflection."