Museo de Vida: Geometric Cubism Project
The Geometric Cubism project was the Math component of our Museo de Vida exhibition project, which included Humanities, Chemistry, Math, and Spanish. The entire project was set in 1930's Spain, during the Spanish Civil War. At that time, the cubist movement was just taking off; at the time of its creation, it was a form of rebellion, since it didn't exactly conform to the status quo of art at the time. For the project, each person made a cubist art piece about a topic of his/her choice, on a found/reused/recycled canvas of his/her choice.
Each cubist art piece was required to include at least one triangle, rectangle, square, parallelogram, rhombus, trapezoid, kite, and circle. Each piece also had to include: any shape with a perimeter of 12 (the units are arbitrary); any shape with an area of 42; any combination of two or more touching shapes with a total area of 103; any shape with a volume of 34; any shape with a surface area of 63; two instances where a shape lies within another shape, with calculations of the non-covered area; a circle with a radius of 4; and a set of parallel lines intersecting a transversal, including labeled supplementary, opposite, and alternate angles, with angle measures. It might seem difficult to fit all of this into one art piece, but each requirement could be fulfilled in the foreground or the background of the painting, and the exact numbers could be fudged a little bit; a circle with a circumference of 4π (~12.57) would satisfy the requirement for a shape with a perimeter of 12, because it would be almost impossible to draw a circle precisely enough that the circumference would be exactly 12.
Each cubist art piece was required to include at least one triangle, rectangle, square, parallelogram, rhombus, trapezoid, kite, and circle. Each piece also had to include: any shape with a perimeter of 12 (the units are arbitrary); any shape with an area of 42; any combination of two or more touching shapes with a total area of 103; any shape with a volume of 34; any shape with a surface area of 63; two instances where a shape lies within another shape, with calculations of the non-covered area; a circle with a radius of 4; and a set of parallel lines intersecting a transversal, including labeled supplementary, opposite, and alternate angles, with angle measures. It might seem difficult to fit all of this into one art piece, but each requirement could be fulfilled in the foreground or the background of the painting, and the exact numbers could be fudged a little bit; a circle with a circumference of 4π (~12.57) would satisfy the requirement for a shape with a perimeter of 12, because it would be almost impossible to draw a circle precisely enough that the circumference would be exactly 12.