Art Definition and 181 Threads

At my school there is a small art gallery located above the food courts. Today they had some Buddhist monks making sand mandalas. I had heard about them but never actually saw one until today. There were 4 monks making a mandala on a big square 4-legged table. It was quite exquisite and...

A gravity graph is a kind of art "tool" that let's you draw nice geometric shapes. It has a board the size of a piece of paper that is weighted in the middle, each of the corners is connected to a piece of string and the strings are tied to a small rectangle (paralell to the board) about 1.5...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,,1699203,00.html story about and link to someone's mathematically inspired 'art' (if printing an equation or mathematical symbol is artistic to you). be warned the descriptions of the equations/symbols can induce speechlessness and not in a...

I hadn't checked in on C to C for awhile and had absolutely no idea! She died on Jan 5th, apparently from an asthma attack. Bell talked about it in detail on the Sunday night show. This must have hit Art Bell very hard as he and his wife were obviously very much in love. She seemed like a...

The only thing that will be left to study in the future is philosophy. It is science that will end. Once all our practical scientific-technical problems have been solved, and we can manipulate all matter and ourselves infinitely, then only philosophy-metaphysics-art will be left, and that study...

I have a question about album art in windows xp. A lot of my music was taken from backup disks and didn't come with album art, they were burnt under windows me. I've went ahead and searched a P2P network for album art and retrieved most of what I need. The problem I am having is that quite a few...

This human interest story caught my attention. Could this be a new art form? http://www.lubbesmeyerstudio.com/_media/popups_and_thumbnails/l_poppies.jpg http://www.lubbesmeyerstudio.com/

http://artpad.art.com draw things, and it makes a video out of them. I'll give a link to one of my drawings when I find one...

Okay, I'm sure that most of you are familiar with Spirograph. You could make all kinds of neat patterns with it. Well, the other day I was doing some playing around with my ray-tracer (POV-Ray), and after a while I came up with something that reminded me of one of those Spirogragh drawings...

[Poll] Should highly biased art be placed in US government buildings So what do you think? Should partisan artwork be allowed in government buildings such as court houses, libraries, and the DMV (or as its more popularly known as, hell). And to clarify, artwork that would be considered a...

Our Morning Prayer :biggrin: Our Hard Drive Which art internal Volume C by name; Thy code be clean, Thy fonts be seen On screen as they are on paper. Give us this day our documents, And lead us not into fragmentation But deliver us our data. For thine is the SCSI, And the EISA...

Here is one of my pictures. I make these in Paint. I chose this one because it's pretty good, but not so good I'd feel funny about sharing it. If you just don't like abstract art then don't look at it.

Recently I watched a documentary on Vladimir Nabokov's outlook on Kafka's Metamorphosis, and he made the comment, "The passion of science and the precision of art." Usually it is interpreted the other way around "The precision of science and the passion of art" according to modern...

Hi I have a report to write title "state of the art nuclear reactors" however the content of this is up to my own interpretation.I have taken "state-of-the-art" to mean the highest level of development of a device/ technique at a particular time, so what would this mean in terms of nuclear...

I want to learn martial art, which is the easiest of them to have some ability to defend myself?

How do people digest modern art? I mean its so ugly and still people pay big bucks for it. Do they just do it to show that they are more cultured or something like that? The paintings are painings rather. They are so uncky. One thing: Michelangelo, etc paintings of nude people is treated with...

I once knew an art critic who was also a brilliant mathematican, unfortunately he couldn't read. He could understand letters as variables and oddly enough acronyms, but not as words. So when I received a letter from him telling me which three works of art are his absolute favorites of all time...

I could hardly believe what I read. Maybe this is common, and everybody has his own. I just discovered. :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: Alibi If you speak french, you can already use it. Otherwise, they say they will soon be available in english, and also for Monique :-p So the story...

I am an art student who has become fascinated by string theory, particularly the fact that it predicts ten or eleven dimensions of space. I am trying to conduct research into how the idea of their being more dimensions of reality than the three dimentions of space and one of time could affect...

Published in Science, researchers decribe how they have made a molecule that is made up of three interlocking rings, also known as a Borromean knot. No rings are connected unless a third ring interconnects them. They let the structure assemble spontaneously by specially designing the ring...

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http://www.mualphatheta.org/Links/MAO_Links_Books_Problem_Solving.htm I think the text is by Mu Alpha Theta... Does anyone know or used this text before? Thanks...

This idea of dimension seemed an appropriate response to what I see in the Monte Carlo effect. I mean here we are trying to descibe what dimenison might mean in terms of a gravity issue. Brane world scenarios. Are we not also trying give dimension a boost here in what we understand of the...

Why is art (painting, photography, literature, music, film, sculpture, etc) often put up on the same pedestal as science? Among names like Einstein, Poincare, Newton, and Gauss in a typical list of great contributors to humankind, you'll find names like Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Rembrandt, Da...

Traditionally, it has been maintained that science and art are separate subjects - perhaps even diametrically opposed. But I hypothesise that true scientific endeavour is art in action, and that a good theory is an art form. First, what is art? Definition: 1. [n] the creation of...

For Art Bell fans, there is good news. He's going to be replacing Barbara Simpson on the weekends. This is great because it will mean that there's the possibility he'll do the next Coast to Coast interview with Michio Kaku. George Norry's cool and he will continue to run the show Mon-Fri...

"The ancient dates for the paintings cast little light on the mystery of who made them and why, but it suggests that whoever the painters were they came well before the Aztecs established their culture in central Mexico some 3,000 years ago."...

Perhaps it's simply the asthetic that attracts my attention, but I've always held a certain fondness for the simplisitc beauty of Picasso's Enamel Saucepan. http://www.kinneret.co.il/afikim/picasso/yom0.files/image004.jpg Post an image (of reasonable kByte-size) of something you...

Find your muse in the gallery below. Feel free to embellish.

this is a problem i have been thinking about for months now, it truly has me stumped! i need to hear some different ideas to clear things up in my head... a while ago i saw the movie 'taking sides' about a german conductor being investigated for collaborating with hitler during the second...

Most of you I presume are at least familair with some type of art. You've seen the Mona Lisa, you know who painted the Sistine Chapel, and possibly some of you are artist. I know one person besides me on this forum is only because he's my brother :) The question I have is more for non-artist...