The fascination of numbers and art was and still is slightly over my head. I was unaware of the strong opinions and theories based on them all.
I ended up watching Pi by Darren Aronofsky. The film mentions a lot on the subject of science of numbers. The golden ratio was mentioned as well as Jewish mysticism relating the number 212 which was brought up that was the magic number from God to explain all things. In the movie the De Divina Proportione showing the golden ratio on a human face is represented when the main character is studying his own face because of his genius and insanity.
Which made me think of surrealism and the fourth dimension. "the n-dimensional non Euclidean geometries were a stimulus to go beyond traditional oil painting to explore the interrelationship of dimensions and even to reexamine the nature of three dimensional perspective" (Henderson). Which had me think about Surrealism and of course Dali.
Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) depicts the moment of Jesus on the cross as a hypercube, known as a tesseract.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art describes the painting as a "new interpretation of an oft-depicted subject. ..[showing] Christ's spiritual triumph over corporeal harm."
Dali is quoted saying in response to what the painting is about.
"I don't know yet. First I have ideas, I explain them later. This picture will be the great metaphysical work of my summer."
Once completed, Dali defined it as "metaphysical, transcendent cubism”: "
I spend some time as well listening to
Varese's composition Ionsitation which are definitely on the avant grade side of things. The fundamental side of all the music is it sending off vibrations on the smallest level that is sending a message and a feeling which can be measured mathematically.
Works Cited
Henderson, Linda D. "The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art Linda Dalrymple Henderson." Leonardo 17.3 (1984): 205-10.JStor. Web. 12 Apr. 2015.
Dalí, Salvador; Gómez de la Serna, Ramón (2001) [1988]. Dali (Print). Secaucus, NJ: Wellfleet
Press. ISBN 1555213421
Livio, Mario (2002). The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, The World's Most Astonishing Number. New York: Broadway Books. ISBN 0-7679-0815-5.
Vesna, Victoria. “Mathematics.” Lecture. CoLE DESMA 9. Web. <https://cole.uconline.edu/~UCLA-201209-12F-DESMA-9-1#l=Week-2-Assignment/id4287887>
"Salvador Dali: Painting the Fourth Dimension." Salvador Dali: Painting the Fourth Dimension. Web. 13 Apr. 2015. <http://www.philipcoppens.com/dali.html>.
Pi. By Darren Aronofsky. Dir. Darren Aronofsky. Protozoa Pictures, Inc., 1998.
Edgard Varese - Ionisation -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9mg4KHqRPw. N.b.d April 12.
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