3 - 15. GEARS Painting

Magic square 3x3 matrix is formed by various gears. The upper row corresponds to the numbers 4, 3, 8. Medium – 9, 5, 1; bottom – 2, 7, 6. These numbers can be “extracted” by сounting screws, rivets or pins on each of them and through analyzing the visual size of each gear. The gear corresponding to “9” is the biggest, “1” – the smallest. The disk area of each gear is proportional to the numbers from 1 to 9. Accordingly, the radii are proportional to the square roots of the numbers from 1 to 9. Horizontal, vertical and diagonal sums in this magic square are equal to 15. This is the number of big rivets placed among the gears. All the gears are connected by different kinds of mechanical transmissions. They convey the rotation from the central gear which corresponds to the number “5”, to all the others. The number “5” is the central point of any magic square and has a profound symbolic meaning in many cultures and occult systems. It can symbolize man, health, fifth element, Mercury (planet), and many other things. Arithmism is a new style in contemporary fine art, presenting real world objects related to figures and numbers, or the figures and numbers themselves, forming complete mathematical expressions, equations, numerical series or matrices with some definite meaning. Figures and numbers could also be read due to the way different objects are positioned on the canvas, or extracted through the quantity of the objects presented. Genre and style peculiarities Some works of the style resemble still-life paintings, however, the task is quite different. Sometimes paysage or genre painting elements are used. The styles and artistic methods could vary a lot, at some points getting pretty close to primitivism. The objects, their shapes and positions, and the methods used by artist are brought under the command of mathematic meaning – the meaning which is always present but not necessarily obvious. Etymology From Greek αριθμός (“arithmos”) – “number”. Arithmism main principles were first formulated by Constantine Dousanovsky and Oleg Bazylewicz 11.02.2011.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:19.7 W x 19.7 H x 0.6 D in

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