Sketching and painting at an early age is a waste of precious time
AT WHAT AGE DID GREAT PAINTERS START TO MAKE PAINTINGS
- Georgia O’Keeffe began painting at around the age of 13
- Michelangelo began painting at around the age of 12 or 13,
- Leonardo da Vinci began painting at the age of 14
- Johannes Vermeer began painting at around the age of 20
- Andy Warhol began painting at around the age of 20
AT WHAT AGE IS THE CREATIVITY OF PAINTERS AT ITS PEAK?
According to a Washington Post article, painters typically reach their creative peak at age 42
- Somewhere between 19 and 91. There is no “average” age for greatness.
- Picasso’s Guernica was painted when he was in his mid-50s, 56.
- Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Can was painted when he was 33.
- Da Vinci’s Last Supper was painted when he was in his late 30s, and the Mona Lisa was painted when he was in his 50s.
- Vermeer painted Girl with a Pearl Earring when he was in his 30s.
- Dali painted Persistence of Memory when he was 27.
- Basquiat painted everything before he died at 27, Modigliani the same, at 36, and Frida Kahlo at 47.
- Georgia O’Keeffe did brilliant work all her life, into her 90s but many of her most famous she painted in her 40s.
- So, you tell me. Mid-life is what age I would suggest as the average age creating important works.
SUMMARY
The list here is so long that you can imagine that most of the greatest painter started painting in their late teens. Therefore, be careful with social media. Which creates the impression that your child may show potential to become a great painter at an early age. In fact, at this age, his brain is not ready for the thought process.
If your child takes up drawing or any such activity before adolescence then he is wasting valuable time in life where his photographic/eidetic memory is at its peak, now gradually it will fade away and his analytical thoughts will start developing. So if he is doing a painting or any such activity before 13-16 years, then it is one of the most absurd activities.
This is a big economic game by the paint and coloring lobby who want to sell billions of dollars worth of paint every year to so-called moms. With this happy smile of the child in the advertisement – a great psychological game.
LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST, a person who wants to make a name for himself in the field of painting must be good at mathematics because without mathematics we can become a roadside painter but can never become Leonardo da Vinci. Compositional math (Mathematical rules like the Golden Ratio, Rule of Thirds, and Rule of Odds represent balance and interest in a composition.) Realism (Realism art reflects what artists see, which is made up of math and science, or the patterns in nature.) Fractal geometry (Art historians and mathematicians have pointed out that Jackson Pollock’s drip painting method is a form of fractal geometry.) Geometric shapes etc are some of the main components that ultimately decide the quality of your painting. Painters needed to figure out how to depict three-dimensional scenes on a two-dimensional canvas. Second, philosophers and artists alike were convinced that mathematics was the true essence of the physical world and that the entire universe, including the arts, could be explained in geometric terms. Artists use math in every work of art they create. To make drawings, sculptures, paintings, and textiles, they must add or subtract art materials. Applying paint to a canvas is an example of the additive process. So is weaving fibers together into a textile.
Some famous artists who are associated with mathematics
Leonardo da Vinci
Albrecht Dürer
M.C. Escher
List
Further information: mathematics and art
| Artist | Dates | Artform | Contribution to mathematical art |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calatrava, Santiago | 1951– | Architecture | Mathematically-based architecture[3][8] |
| Della Francesca, Piero | 1420–1492 | Fine art | Mathematical principles of perspective in art;[9] his books include De prospectiva pingendi (On perspective for painting), Trattato d’Abaco (Abacus treatise), and De corporibus regularibus (Regular solids) |
| Demaine, Erik and Martin | 1981– | Origami | “Computational origami“: mathematical curved surfaces in self-folding paper sculptures[10][11][12] |
| Dietz, Ada | 1882–1950 | Textiles | Weaving patterns based on the expansion of multivariate polynomials[13] |
| Draves, Scott | 1968– | Digital art | Video art, VJing[14][15][16][17][18] |
| Dürer, Albrecht | 1471–1528 | Fine art | Mathematical theory of proportion[19][20] |
| Ernest, John | 1922–1994 | Fine art | Use of group theory, self-replicating shapes in art[21][22] |
| Escher, M. C. | 1898–1972 | Fine art | Exploration of tessellations, hyperbolic geometry, assisted by the geometer H. S. M. Coxeter[19][23] |
| Farmanfarmaian, Monir | 1922–2019 | Fine art | Geometric constructions exploring the infinite, especially mirror mosaics[24] |
| Ferguson, Helaman | 1940– | Digital art | Algorist, Digital artist[3] |
| Forakis, Peter | 1927–2009 | Sculpture | Pioneer of geometric forms in sculpture[25][26] |
| Grossman, Bathsheba | 1966– | Sculpture | Sculpture based on mathematical structures[27][28] |
| Hart, George W. | 1955– | Sculpture | Sculptures of 3-dimensional tessellations (lattices)[3][29][30] |
| Radoslav Rochallyi | 1980– | Fine art | Equations-inspired mathematical visual art including mathematical structures.[31][32] |
| Hill, Anthony | 1930– | Fine art | Geometric abstraction in Constructivist art[33][34] |
| Leonardo da Vinci | 1452–1519 | Fine art | Mathematically-inspired proportion, including golden ratio (used as golden rectangles)[19][35] |
| Longhurst, Robert | 1949– | Sculpture | Sculptures of minimal surfaces, saddle surfaces, and other mathematical concepts[36] |
| Man Ray | 1890–1976 | Fine art | Photographs and paintings of mathematical models in Dada and Surrealist art[37] |
| Naderi Yeganeh, Hamid | 1990– | Fine art | Exploration of tessellations (resembling rep-tiles)[38][39] |
| Pacioli, Luca | 1447–1517 | Fine art | Polyhedra (e.g. rhombicuboctahedron) in Renaissance art;[19][40] proportion, in his book De divina proportione |
| Perry, Charles O. | 1929–2011 | Sculpture | Mathematically-inspired sculpture[3][41][42] |
| Robbin, Tony | 1943– | Fine art | Painting, sculpture and computer visualizations of four-dimensional geometry[43] |
| Ri Ekl | 1984– | Visual computer poetry | Geometry-inspired poetry [44] |
| Saiers, Nelson | 2014– | Fine art | Mathematical concepts (toposes, Brown representability, Euler’s identity, etc) play a central role in his artwork.[45][46][47] |
| Séquin, Carlo | 1941– | Digital art | computer graphics, geometric modelling, and sculpture[48][49][50] |
| Sugimoto, Hiroshi | 1948– | Photography, sculpture | Photography and sculptures of mathematical models,[51] inspired by the work of Man Ray [52] and Marcel Duchamp[53][54] |
| Taimina, Daina | 1954– | Textiles | Crochets of hyperbolic space[55] |
| Thorsteinn, Einar | 1942–2015 | Architecture | Mathematically-inspired sculpture and architecture with polyhedral, spherical shapes and tensile structures [56][57] |
| Uccello, Paolo | 1397–1475 | Fine art | Innovative use of perspective grid, objects as mathematical solids (e.g. lances as cones)[58][59] |
| Kosmalski, Mikołaj Jakub | 1986 | Digital art | Exploration of spreadsheet software capabilities (OO Calc and MS Excel), generation of finite sets of points by parametric formulas, connecting these points by curved (usually cubic) and broken lines.[60] |
| Verhoeff, Jacobus | 1927–2018 | Sculpture | Escher-inspired mathematical sculptures such as lattice configurations and fractal formations[3][61] |
| Widmark, Anduriel | 1987– | Sculpture | Geometric glass sculpture using tetrastix, and knot theory[62][63] |
