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PRIMARY EDUCATION PROGRAM
(Nursery - Primary)
“SCULPTURE - PLASTIC”
Redacted and Presented by Visual-Arts Expert and Educator
Getting acquainted with volume, form and light. Touch and Sight – Moving from two to three-dimensional. Flashback into the history of sculpturing from antiquity to the present day.
 
SECONDARY EDUCATION PROGRAM
(All 6 Grades)
“ART AND MATHEMATICS - PAINTING”
Redacted and Presented by professional Mathematician
By means of a parallel tour through the history of Art on the one hand and that of Mathematics on the other, students are guided to search out the points where these two aspects of human thinking and acting meet and interact. At the same time, through the permanent exhibits of M.C. ESCHER’s and V. VASARELY’s works, students are easily introduced to the nature and indeed the very philosophy of significant mathematical concepts.
Generic Part : (Projection Room - duration: 1 hour)
- A parallel tour through the history of Art and Mathematics with the emphasis placed on the Greek geometric art, on classical art (the Parthenon-proportions-golden mean), on the analysis of linear perspective (renaissance), on the geometry of modern art (cubism, constructivism, Bauhaus) and, last but not least, on the contemporary, so-called “mathematical art” of fractals.
- A brief general information slot on the life and style of the artists whose works are exhibited at the museum.
Program description per school form
1st FORM - SECONDARY SCHOOL:
Seeking the geometrical background of specific, appropriately selected paintings by Escher and Vasarely. Students are invited to explore the structure of the selected paintings and, if possible, reproduce them solely by means of a pencil, ruler, and compass. In doing so, they will clearly have to mathematically deconstruct the paintings, thus entering the realm of mathematical concepts.
2nd FORM - SECONDARY SCHOOL:
An introduction to the fundamental geometric transformations (reflection, central symmetry, parallel transport, rotation) and searching these out later during the guided museum tour.
3rd FORM - SECONDARY SCHOOL: Associating the distinction between “being and appearing to be” of Euripides’ tragedy “Helen”, which students are taught at school, with the philosophical as well as mathematical “being and appearing to be”. The association is intended to lead to an awareness of the necessity for the use of reasoning and proof through appropriate paintings in which “intuition” can be misleading. The concepts of function and inverse function are presented.
4th FORM - SECONDARY SCHOOL:
Here the use of appropriate paintings that are in fact optical illusions leads to an empirical and, thereafter, theoretical extraction of the criteria governing parallelograms. Escher’s painting “Verbum” (=speech, logos) is the visual stimulus for a brainstorming session over the definition of the mathematical concept of ratio (proportion) and its philosophical overtones. Alternatively, there could be an introduction to non-Euclidian geometries.
5th FORM - SECONDARY SCHOOL:
Exploiting Escher’s paintings-tilings, we study the regular and semi-regular division of the plane (through regular and semi-regular polygons respectively). Alternatively, Zeno’s paradoxes constituting the vaulting horse for an introduction to the concepts of limit and self-similarity.
6th FORM - SECONDARY SCHOOL: Here again appropriate paintings are being exploited with a view to negotiating the concepts of
• limit, infinite and infinitesimal,
• discreet, continuum and their philosophical overtones,
• the “countability” of the natural numbers set, the density of the rational numbers set and the “overcountability” of the real numbers set,
• functions and inverse functions &
• mathematical structure.
Part 2: (duration: 50΄)
A guided tour that allows not only for interaction with the works of the artists that have been discussed but also for discussions spurred by the students’ own apt remarks.
Part 3: (duration 10΄)
Time to head back to the projection room and fill out the evaluation-feedback form, where students anonymously record their comments on the program just attended, including brief assessments of the overall activity and of what new things they have learnt, if any, as well as feelings or thoughts they seem to be puzzling over.
• Number of students : 25 - 30 persons
• Days : from Monday to Friday
• Hours : 9:00 - 14:00
• Program duration : 2 hours
“EDGAR DEGAS’ SCULPTURES”
Redacted and Presented by Visual-Arts Expert and Educator
Discovering the artist through volume and light. Getting acquainted with volume and form by means of observing the artist’s sculptures. Motion and rhythm, balance and distribution of weight and size in sculpture. Accessing Degas’ painting work through colour and light (PowerPoint Presentation).
“SCULPTURE AND MATHEMATICS”
A contrastive tour through the history of Sculpture on the one hand and that of Mathematics on the other from antiquity to the present day, highlighting the points where Sculpture was influenced by Mathematics, especially Geometry. Namely, the program studies and explores:
The standard of those mathematical pursuits and discoveries that have affected and helped shape the at-times dominant views on beauty and harmony dating as far back as the times of Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle and the Hellenistic era but also encompassing Renaissance and the geometric sculpture of the 20th century.
The mathematical ratios of the statue “Doryphoros” (Spear Bearer) by ancient sculptor Polykleitos. The statue’s ratios were the ones used as a model for the representation of the proportions of the human body by Classical Greeks and Vitruvius, continuing into the post-Renaissance era.
The use of the golden mean mathematical ratio (centuries later symbolised with an Φ in the Western world, commemorating its initiator’s name) by renowned ancient sculptor Phidias [Φειδίας] and thereafter in Renaissance by its most celebrated artists like DaVinci.
Modern fields in Mathematics, like Topology, and the influence they exert on leading sculptors.
 
Program Availability:
Mondays through Fridays 9:00 – 11:00 or 11:00 – 13:00
Program Duration:
2 hours (Tour, Workshops, Video and PowerPoint Presentations)
Admits up to 25 people per school group at a time
Program attendance is offered free of charge to students and teachers.
Kindly reserve ahead: 210 34 61 981 (Mon.-Fr. 9:00-17:00) or via email enomikou@herakleidon-art.gr
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