Unexpected math…

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• Hello Everyone! I’m Rita, and today I’m going to speak about one of the biggest post-
impressionist painter and about his famous Starry Night.

• Let’s start with What is it mean „post-impressionism”? - Answer is simple. It’s an art
movement, and It’s really easy to recognize the style because of the vibrant, lively
colors and they usually use only dots and lines to create the painting.

• Additionally what so special about it? On the one hand we can mention that it’s
beautiful of course, but on the other hand it has several hidden secrets too. As I
mentioned in the title there’s an unexpected math behind this painting. In the next few
minutes I’m going to tell you some interesting facts

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• Several physicists and mathematicians find fascinating this artwork. Van Gogh's
works closely follow the mathematical structure of natural turbulence, such as swirling
water. It is incredibly close to how turbulence actually works. Not perfect but near-
perfect

• As you can see, his artwork is full of with this mathematical model. In this slide you
can see some other paintings from him. And with these narrows I can show you the
little details. For example in the background of his self-portray, there’s quite similar
turbulences like the starry night has.

• 3, By the way, what we call Turbulence? I will try to explain this, in a very easy
way. Turbulence simply is a type of flow in many different directions and at many
different speeds. ( in other words : the continuous movement of a fluid) Turbulent
motions are very common in Nature, they are nearly everywhere: in the oceans, in the
atmosphere, in rivers, even in stars and galaxies too. Water or air which have a low
viscosity can become turbulent relative easily, while honey or syrup, which are very
thick, tend not to become turbulent. However, Turbulence is a very complex and even
today we do not fully understand how it works. 
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• The first person that described and studied turbulence was probably Leonardo da
Vinci. He was a man before his time, the greatest artist-scientist of the Italian
Renaissance in the fifteenth century. –We can see some of his studies in the left side of
the slide.

• The Scream and The Great Wave takes places in the right side of the slide. They were
created by other artists in totally different centuries. If we compare these ones with
Van Gogh’s artworks, in the surface they can be similar, but according to the
physicists they are not following the mathematical structure of turbulences.

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 “Art inspires science and science inspires art”
 Overall Starry Night is based on Van Gogh’s own observations, imagination,
memories, and emotions. With this work we feel how small we are in the university
and the hugeness that above us.
 Van Gogh once wrote to his brother “Painters understand nature and love it, and teach
us to see.” With Starry Night Van Gogh does just that. He teaches us to see the sky,
not as it looks but probably as it feels.
 This is the end of my talk, I hope I could tell you some catching and interesting
information about this topic.

Thank you for your attention.