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Mathematics and art

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have chosen this article of Mathematics and art purely do to browsing and seeing a heading that I thought would be interesting to read about. I believe that there is a lot of mathematics within art, and that it is something that is not brought up a lot when talking about art. I feel as though the article gives a considerable amount of information through the years of art history and why the use of math came to be in art, along with why artists and philosophers think art is beautifully connected to art itself.

Evaluate the article
The Mathematics and art article goes into depth about how art and mathematics coincided, mainly how they are perceived in the visual arts throughout time. The article goes into detail historically about mathematics and art, how they merged together to make more authentic pieces of art. From things like Polykleitos Doryphoros in capturing the human body proportionately, took elements of mathematics to accomplish. Here the article also goes into depth about elements of math that went into art like the ratio 1:square root of 2 being connected to the "ideal male nude" and the golden ratio a+b is to a as a is to b, just to name a few. Along with historic architecture of the Notre-Dame of Laon, used mathematics along with creative artistic design to design not only a place or worship but a beautiful work of art. Thus as well brings together mathematics and art to become known as beautiful mates. Artist's and philosophers soon found that adding mathematical geometric shapes and using techniques like perspective using triangles and lines combined created beautiful works of art. The Mathematics and art article continues in depth of art through history and the combination of mathematics and how they become beautiful elements that shape artistic design.