Art & Math

Carl Andre, "Forty-Nine Small Copper Cardinal," 1975 #Andre #Math #art #artsintegration #steam

Artwork: Josef Albers, Gemini G.E.L. James Webb, "White Line Square XII," 1966, color lithograph on Arches Cover paper #art #math #k12 #teachers

What is the ratio of the removed rectangle in this image to the ratio of the larger triangle? What are the real-life intersections at the corners of the rectangles? What might the artist have been trying to map? Does the shape of the triangle remind you of any place(s) that you might see on a map? Sol LeWitt, "A Triangle of Manhattan without a Rectangle," 1978, gelatin silver print with rectangle cut out of center #art #math #teachers #k12

Artwork: Pisanello, "Sphere Representing Earth, Sea, and Sky [reverse]," c. 1448/1449, bronze #art #math #teachers #k12

Artwork: Thomas Barrow, "Tri-arch [From the series Cancellations]," 1974-1978, gelatin silver print #art #math #teachers #k12 #artsed

Artwork: Piet Mondrian, "Tableau No. IV; Lozenge Composition with Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow, and Black," c. 1924/1925, oil on canvas #art #math #geometry #teachers #k12

What does convex mean? Mel Bochner, "Convex Perspective," 1967, gelatin silver print, printed c. 1991 #art #math #teachers #k12

M.C. Escher, "Mobius Strip II," 1963, woodcut in red, black and gray-green, printed from three blocks #art #math #artsed #k12 #teachers

Robert Indiana, "Pentagon," 1975, color screenprint on wove Arches paper #art #math #k12 #artsintegration #teachers

Ronald Davis, Gemini G.E.L., 'Dodecagon Cylinder and Cube," published 1974, 23-color screenprint on Arches 88 paper #k12 #art #math #teachers #artsintegration

Folding screen activity: Have students fold two sheets of heavy paper or cardboard like an accordion, each with six “panels” to create a folding screen. Using colored pencils, pens, and markers, they can create scenes that continue across both panels. Kusumi Morikage (c. 1620 – 1690), Rice Cultivation in the Four Seasons, detail from six-panel screens; ink and light color on paper Each 151 x 347 (591/2 x 1365/8), courtesy of Kyoto National Museum. Important Cultural Property #k12 #teachers...

Art + math lesson ideas: What would you name this work of art? Students will identify polygons and angles in Tony Smith’s sculpture Moondog, then they will create a sculpture with polyhedra nets and calculate the cost of covering the sculpture in gold. Tony Smith, "Moondog," model 1964, fabricated 1998–1999 #Smith #Teachers #K12 #art #math #artsintegration #steam

Artwork: Artist Scott Burton believed that art should "place itself not in front of, but around, behind, underneath (literally) the audience." In this way, he challenged ideas about sculpture's monumentality, formality, and status as an object to be looked at on a pedestal. Scott Burton, "Six-Part Seating,"conceived 1985, fabricated 1998 #Burton #Geometry #art #math #artsintegration

Artwork: Bill Max, "Radiation from White," 1979 #Max #Geometry #math #art #artsintegration

Artwork: Dan Flavin, "Untitled (to Barnett Newman to commemorate his simple problem, red, yellow and blue), " 1970 #Flavin #Geometry #math #art #artsintegration