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Week 7: Neuroscience and Art

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This week, Professor Vesna talks about the connections between neuroscience and art and the impact neuroscience has had on our society. From the outside, it is tough to see the connection between the two fields. According to our culture, neuroscience is the study of the brain and how it functions. However, art is seen in a creative and subjective way of life. Nonetheless, ideas sprouted by artists are often controversial. As we go deeper into the history of art and neuroscience, we can begin to see how the two fields can collide. In the 1960s, an artistic fab came about. The name of this fab is "Op Art". This type of art ran crazy through scientific and artistic fields. For the scientific side, many scientists were beginning to discover how the retina processes color and how the color of someone's iris could play a part in the color processing. Artists, however, began to take advantage of this new discovery and created art that had messed with people's perceptions...
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Week 4: MedTech and Art

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In this week's lecture, Professor Vesna discusses medical advances in technology and this also considered art in today's culture. The human body has undoubtedly always been looked at as a work of art, especially in the medical field when analyzing every little function of the human body. The invention of x-rays and other advances in technology in the medical field have given doctors, nurses, and any other medical professionals much more knowledge about the human body. This invention has also helped society in many ways such as TSA in airports. To try and keep out airports as safe as possible, the x-rays in TSA are constantly getting better to assure the safety of our communities.  Another invention in the medical field is MRI. Also known as Magnetic Resonance Imaging, this helps essentially when assessing injuries or going deeper into a specific area in the body that a normal x-ray can see. This really applies to me because when I tore my labrum in my shoulder, I wa...
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Week 2 Math and Art

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This week's topic, Math and Art, focuses on the idea that artists either intentionally or unintentionally use math to help create their art. As someone who has little knowledge in the arts, I always assumed that artists used perspective based on how they viewed the world because that's just how we see it. However, as Professor Vesna points out, it was Brunelleschi who first used mathematics for perspective drawing. Leonardo da Vinci was a very famous renaissance artist who constantly used mathematics to help create more visually appealing art.  For instance, in his painting the Mona Lisa , da Vinci uses the golden ratio (1:0.618) because it is believed to be the most appealing. We can also see he implements golden ratio rectangles in many of his works including The Vitruvian Man and The Last Supper . While looking at the Mona Lisa , I better understand how something so simple as placement of her features could offer a more pleasing visual. To the untrained eye, on...
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