1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:17,440 what do you get when you add art and maths huh geometric art geometric art hang on what's 2 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:23,179 geometry and maths got to do with art geometric art is art that is based on shapes and patterns 3 00:00:23,179 --> 00:00:29,900 like geometry and maths in school art maths and geometry are often very different subjects but in 4 00:00:29,900 --> 00:00:36,540 life they're together everywhere everywhere even in my house maybe even in the room with you right 5 00:00:36,540 --> 00:00:45,740 now take a look around you what shapes do you see i see a window it's a rectangle this lamp is like 6 00:00:45,740 --> 00:00:53,340 a triangle my glasses are two circles how many of these shapes are exactly the same on both sides 7 00:00:54,140 --> 00:00:55,900 In geometry, this is called symmetry. 8 00:00:56,580 --> 00:00:57,940 Symmetry is all around. 9 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:02,700 In tables and chairs and flowers and insects like butterflies and beetles. 10 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:04,719 Sometimes in faces. 11 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:09,359 When lots of these shapes appear together in a repeated way, this is called a pattern. 12 00:01:09,900 --> 00:01:13,560 You might have noticed patterns in your clothes or on walls or floors. 13 00:01:13,939 --> 00:01:18,060 When a pattern fits together without any gaps, this is called tessellation. 14 00:01:19,019 --> 00:01:22,439 Art from the Islamic world, dating back since the 7th century, 15 00:01:22,700 --> 00:01:26,019 shows shapes arranged in a huge variety of tessellating patterns 16 00:01:26,019 --> 00:01:28,780 that go on and on and on. 17 00:01:29,020 --> 00:01:33,859 These designs are used on pottery, wooden stone carvings, carpets and tiles, 18 00:01:34,140 --> 00:01:36,159 and used to decorate homes and religious buildings. 19 00:01:36,159 --> 00:01:40,180 So geometry has been important for mathematicians and artists for hundreds, 20 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:42,560 no, thousands of years! 21 00:01:43,219 --> 00:01:47,180 Yep, and they've all explored these geometric themes of shape, 22 00:01:47,180 --> 00:01:52,180 Pattern and tessellation in their own different, unique ways. 23 00:01:52,180 --> 00:01:57,180 The Cubists wanted to show an object with different shapes from different angles. 24 00:01:57,180 --> 00:02:03,180 The Suprematists used shapes like rectangles and triangles as the main characters in their paintings. 25 00:02:03,180 --> 00:02:08,180 Artist Bridget Riley uses shapes and lines to create illusions that play with your vision. 26 00:02:08,180 --> 00:02:12,180 This is sometimes referred to as op art, which is short for optical art. 27 00:02:12,180 --> 00:02:17,219 The longer you look at her art, the more you might think it starts to move and change into something different. 28 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:17,960 Whoa! 29 00:02:20,159 --> 00:02:23,260 Is all geometric art flat like paintings? 30 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,599 No, geometric art can be 3D sculptures too. 31 00:02:27,060 --> 00:02:32,620 Artists Salwa, Rauda, Shuker created rectangular blocks that can be stacked on top of one another. 32 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:37,680 A little like Minecraft, but each block is not just a block. 33 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:44,099 They represent an idea from Islamic and Sufi poetry that every part is individual and can stand on its own. 34 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:46,960 They can also come together to make a whole. 35 00:02:47,580 --> 00:02:51,319 Another artist fascinated by maths and shapes is Rashid Arine. 36 00:02:51,500 --> 00:02:56,960 His sculpture, Zero to Infinity, is made up of lots of wooden cubes that start off as a big square. 37 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:03,480 But he invites you to work collaboratively with other people to touch, move, shift and stack them into something new. 38 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:05,420 Why is it called Zero to Infinity? 39 00:03:05,420 --> 00:03:11,600 Well, zero is just the start and infinity represents the endless number of forms we could create with his cubes. 40 00:03:12,460 --> 00:03:18,420 So the artwork can keep changing and going on and on and on. That's cool. 41 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,140 So why is it made that? What's it about? 42 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:25,540 Well, Rashid wants to use art to inspire other people to think differently. 43 00:03:25,980 --> 00:03:28,620 He thinks that everyone is equal, just like the cubes. 44 00:03:28,820 --> 00:03:31,420 But the world we live in can feel really fixed. 45 00:03:31,420 --> 00:03:35,580 The symmetry of the big square at the start represents the world as the set structure 46 00:03:35,580 --> 00:03:39,740 Where everyone, like you, is forced to fit in and be the same 47 00:03:39,740 --> 00:03:45,640 So, zero to infinity shows us that what may look fixed can actually be changed? 48 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:49,000 Yeah, when you work together with others to break the symmetry 49 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,840 You're transforming it from sameness to freedom and creativity 50 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:57,760 Rashid wants to show people that if they can work together to make a change inside the gallery 51 00:03:57,760 --> 00:03:59,960 They can do it outside the gallery too 52 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:07,159 take another look around you what shapes can you see now whoa I could see patterns I could 53 00:04:07,159 --> 00:04:17,180 see symmetry I could see tessellation and you yes you look up look down look all around you 54 00:04:17,180 --> 00:04:21,980 what shapes can you see what patterns can you make with the shapes around you and how 55 00:04:21,980 --> 00:04:24,980 How many ways can you transform the world with geometry?