Cubism vs Pop Art

These two forms of art have much more geometric qualities, one due to style, the other due to substance.  Let's create a Venn diagram to compare the two movements.

Cubism                                                                                                                    Pop Art

Violin and Candle by Georges Braque on left and Still Life 20 by Tom Wesselmann on right.

Wheel of Theodorus

Hello.  I stumbled on a neat art project for math today, called the Wheel of Theodorus.  Hopefully we can get that going in class.  The link for instructions on how to teach it is here.  It's for 8th grade and beyond, however, as it has to deal with Pythagorean theorem.

http://www.ldlewis.com/Teaching-Mathematics-with-Art/documents/MTMS2007-04-442a.pdf

Cubism

 In Two Figures (1913-14), Liubov' Popova beautifully demonstrates the artistic possibilities of a Cubist reconstruction and, at the same time, her talent to transcend simple imitation.  http://myweb.rollins.edu/aboguslawski/Ruspaint/cubism.html

Sometimes students are incapable of seeing the art in mathematics.  Thus, I intend to display the mathematics in art.  There are two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes in this painting.  Finding out how many and their dimensions might be a challenging group project.

Future Mathematics: Fractals

One thing my students tend to ask me, is "Mr. V? Where is math in our lives?"  Sometimes that answer has clear ties to what we're learning in class, but other times the mathematics are more advanced.  Fractals are a great example of advanced mathematics with current application.  Some examples follow:

Urban Planning:

http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/120724/srep00527/full/srep00527.html

Natural Patterns:

http://webecoist.momtastic.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/

Chemistry/Physics:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/08/superconductor-fractals/

Art

http://www.oneness4all.com/?cat=44

Crop Circles

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/Bert/3dfractals.html

3D Graphics

http://www.profantasy.com/products/ft.asp

http://specialeffectsmoviesebook.blogspot.com/2013/02/1-fractals-in-special-effects.html

Technology

http://classes.yale.edu/fractals/panorama/ManuFractals/FractalAntennas/FractalAntennas.html

Sound and Music

http://www.tursiops.cc/fm/