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Jacob Burton Desma 9 4/29/17                                                                       Blog 4           The human body has been a interest in artists and their work for many years. This mainly started with human dissection and an interest to understand what's in the human body and how does it function. Human dissection and the human anatomy is where art and medicine really combined with each other. Dating all the way back to the renaissance period. These doctors, artists and medical workers worked to try to figure out the anatomy of the human body so they would be able to represent it and publish it correctly. Henry Gray is known as one of the pioneers of the human anatomy. He published his book, Gray's anatomy. He intended for the medical community to use it but almost all artists use it. One example of the medical influence on an art project is the visible human project. This project details data sets of cross sections throughout the whole human body. This is

Jacob Burton Desma 9 4/22/17                     Event 1     The event that I choose to attend for the first part of the quarter was a workshop with Linda Weintraub. I attended this event on April 19th, at the 5:00 session. This workshop really opened my eyes to how dependent we are on materialistic items and how big a part of our lives they really are. Mrs. Weintraub started off by telling a story about this contraption that an artist created that simulated and replicated a human digestive system. She described how it would take in real, human food, digest it, and turn it into feces. She said the artist’s purpose of this was that he wanted to show us how just how rapidly technology is evolving and how we should be careful to not lose the human element in ourselves and in this technological process. She then went on to describe the workshop she had for us. Mrs. Weintraub described how she had went around her area of upstate New York into the wilderness and collected various

Jacob Burton 4/15/17 Desma 9                     Blog Assignment 2     In math and science, generally there is a right and wrong or a clear idea of the problem or equation. There’s numbers, formulas, and theories that can be logically proved with facts and solutions. Art is different however, as it is usually left for the audience’s interpretation to understand the piece of art. Even though they may not seem related, math has had a huge impact on science and art whether it be in history or in the modern world. One example of this is Josef Albers. Albers was a German-born American artist who used math and art to show his work and is pieces. Albers created many different artworks that involved illusions using cubes. He also created many abstract paintings that involved shapes and illusion. In order to complete these, he had to incorporate math into his paintings. Math has also influenced science in many ways. One way math has influenced science is by trying to learn and