Idea matematyczności świata jako źródło artystycznej inspiracji

Abstract

The lecture attempts to establish its author’s own outlook on life and to justify her artistic views, in which the number manifested through a geometrical form constitutes the superior idea. The author ponders on the ontology of the number in various philosophical schools and the status of mathematics in science and art, including the most recent conceptions which result from mathematics of chaos and fractal geometry. She is particularly close to Pythagorean and Platonic tradition, which accepts the number as the deepest structure of reality. Acknowledging the presence of mathematical entities at all levels of reality: beyond the mind, in the mind and nature leads to a conclusion: the number may be considered the foundation of everything, and mathematics is to be treated as a universal language that not only can be used to describe the laws of nature but is also its property. According to the artist, the Platonic trend still present in the contemporary thought through its “mathematical nature of the world” allows to link rational and logical knowledge with metaphysical experience of its secret and to inspire art.