Gondola (by simpli58)
Gondola (by simpli58)
The Treachery of Images by Rene Magritte, 1928-29. This painting by Belgian Surrealist Rene Magritte has become a bit of an iconic image in modern art. The French phrase is translated as ‘This is not a pipe’: what does Magritte this mean? If you were showed this image without the writing and I asked you what it was, you would probably say ‘It’s a pipe, you idiot’. But is it a actually pipe? … Magritte is asking us to rethink our reality and realise that this is only an image of a pipe, hence The Treachery of Images.
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Photographer Loves Math, Graphs Her Images
Here are some of the pictures the photographer named Nikki Graziano have captured. Graziano, is a math and photography student at Rochester Institute of Technology, she overlays graphs and their corresponding equations onto her carefully composed photos.
“I wanted to create something that could communicate how awesome math is, to everyone,” she says.
Graziano doesn’t go out looking for a specific function but lets one find her instead. Once she’s got an image she likes, Graziano whips up the numbers and tweaks the function until the graph it describes aligns perfectly with the photograph. See more of her Found Functions series at Nikkigraziano.com.
(Source: expose-the-light, via -redux)
