Week 2: Math + Art

Just like the ideas of two cultures i can see and use math and art together all the time in my own photographic practice. in the professors video lectures she went over subjects likes perspective, geometry, symmetry, golden ratio and so on. Iv known that art and math play giant roles in my practice of what i do from the smallest details to the biggest.

The camera obscura is part of photography's beginnings, mainly used by people to sketch the outside world on to a two dimensional plain. Without text like Ibn al-Haytham’s book of optics our understanding of light and optics and the scientific method would be less. because of texts like these the camera obscura was made, just like how the eye records an image the camera obscura flip the image upside and flips if horizontally also. Artist Abelardo Morell is a modern day photographer who uses this idea of the camera obscura and recreates them inside of homes to project the outside world into the spaces. completely covering all the windows in the room and making in pitch back so no light is in the room at all and then cutting a small hole in the window will create this effect. among these step photography uses math to record light, whenever i stand in front of an image i want to capture i need to decide and calculate math problems in my head to figured out the correct exposure, shutter speed, aperture and light sensitivity of the film ill need to record the image.

Camera Obscura
 
Camera Obscura- View of Manhattan and the Chrysler Building Looking West, New York, 2015
Also discussed in the professors video lecture was things like geometry, perspective, symmetry and the golden ratio. these are all techniques and methods i use to create my own art. Studying paintings like the last supper by Leonardo da Vinci i can see parallels in my own work and art practice by how i frame my subjects with regards to perspective and the golden ratio. when i first started learning photography they taught my ways of framing a subject to make it more interesting, like the one thirds rule, the golden ratio,  capturing or freezing motion and so on. all of these techniques require math to deliver my results.
the last supper - Leonardo Da Vinci

Tom of Finland House - Trevor Ott (Me!!)
Math and art combined are big influences in how i work and practice my art daily so this weeks topic was very familiar to me.







Sources: 
Abbott, Edwin. FlatLand: A Romance of Many Dimensions. Print.

Mize, Diane. “A Guide to the Golden Ratio (AKA Golden Section or Golden Mean) for Artists.” A Guide to the Golden Ratio (AKA Golden Section or Golden Mean) for Artists. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2012. <http://emptyeasel.com/2009/01/20/a-guide-to-the-golden-ratio-aka-golden-section-or-golden-mean-for-artists/>.

Vesna, Victoria. “Math + Art.” Lecture 2.

"IN RETROSPECT Book of Optics" 12 FEBRUARY 2015 | VOL 518 | NATURE | 165 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57bf33a137c58162d95139aa/t/5827008c20099e6175572b9c/1478951057856/nature.pdf
   
Weisstein, Eric W. "Golden Ratio." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GoldenRatio.html 



Images: http://www.abelardomorell.net/project/camera-obscura/

http://ndrdmath.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/13471557/744245_orig.jpg 

https://68.media.tumblr.com/01beffb923cc168e20ca4892994871a1/tumblr_oal99sYETc1vb0jgoo6_r1_1280.jpg 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/%C3%9Altima_Cena_-_Da_Vinci_5.jpg/350px-%C3%9Altima_Cena_-_Da_Vinci_5.jpg

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