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     The first thing that came to my mind when I saw the topic for this week was the   Vitruvian Man   by Leonardo da Vinci. If there could be only one image that could represent this week’s topic, I couldn’t think of a better artwork to connect art, math, and science. In the lecture, Professor Vesna described the drawing as being “used many times as a symbol and icon of art and science” (Vesna). She also discussed the importance of proportions/ratios in art and the   Vitruvian Man  is a drawing that represented the proportions of the human body according to an architect named Vitruvius. Proportions are a crucial part of all artworks, but it is especially important in any artwork that is meant to be an accurate representation of a person, place, or thing.                                                         ...

     I found this week's topic of two cultures an interesting one! Before transferring to UCLA as a communications major, I was pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I decided to drop out of SAIC because I saw many artists, including my professors at SAIC struggling financially. Many of the professors there made sure to remind their students that the stereotype of the "struggling artist" was not just a stereotype. C.P. Snow mentions in  The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution that   “It is also, to be brutal, that the young scientists know that with an indifferent degree they'll get a comfortable job, while their contemporaries and counterparts in English or History will be lucky to earn 60 per cent as much” (Snow 19). Although many people think of art and science as two separate cultures,  "both artist and scientist are involved in the work of intuiting change in perception and mat...