Hm, some people (and institutions) proposing a new 'theory of art' and stuff

[Kyriakos]

It came to my attention that some people are proposing a new theory of art. The synopsis is that they claim art can be specifically (at least in main categories and facets, not having to be 1 to 1) tied to math.
The conclusion appears to be that art is some kind of group linked to math if the latter is also seen as a group there.

I am not happy with that. My own view is that while (rather follows from obvious human mentality) art and math (and other science) are tied as human examination and creation and observation etc etc, this does not really seem to lead to some kind of finitely ascribed tie between the larger group (art/imagination) to the more particular group (eg math with axioms).

So i am not really happy with that new theory.

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What do you think of all this? The description of their aim is something mentioning surrealism as well, but i am not sure in what way (i could guess that they mean ties between freer thinking/imagination and more stable/rigoorous/specific formations in math).

 

[warpus]

Art is in the eye of the beholder. What is art to you might not be art to me, etc.

It seems silly to to limit art to a specific definition that is tied to math, but it'd be nice to see the theory written out in full, because the devil is usually in the details with things like these..

 

[Perfection]

Everything is math, math is everything.

New theory sounds interesting. Got any links that describe it?

 

[BvBPL]

There's not much to the initial post describing this theory. Does it have a name? Who are its sponsors and detractors? What was been the response from the artistic community?

Heck, we don't even know what medium of art this theory addresses.

In many forms of art media, mathematics is important. You can't write a song or compose a metered poem without considering mathematic principles even if the poet and the musician have internalized that behavior in a manner that they no longer see it as mathematical.

There is a mathematics of attraction. Symmetry and the Golden Mean are well know means by which one can impart aesthetic pleasure to a composition. A scientist studying the same could like develop a system to create a work that is pleasing through a mathematical description of the same. Of course a pleasing composition is not, in itself, art. Nonetheless most pieces of art are pleasing and intended to be pleasing. Much of this pleasure can be attributed to the mathematical principles of pleasure even if those principles were unknown to the artist.

As such I dispute the thesis presented above that art and mathematics are disciplines that should be segregated and have no relationship.

 

[Kyriakos]

Sorry, i could not update the thread both here and in another forum. Better (for me at least, but maybe others too) that i update it only when i have more specific news

 

[Snorrius]

Better art tied to math than horrendosity like this one which some lunatics call "art" as well.