Pablo Picasso's Three Musicians
Pablo Picasso’s Three Musicians (Picasso) creates a parallel representation of how I interpret engineering. Engineering from my point of view is perspective, teamwork, and constraint.
Picasso’s use of abstract shapes and colors lends to the work’s ambiguity; this gives the audience the freedom of interpretation based on their perspective. Similarly, if you give a group of five engineers an open-ended project, one can almost guarantee five different end-products. The difference in results can mainly be attributed to the spectrum of the group’s perspective.
While perspective can dictate individuality, the depiction of three individual with three exclusive musical instruments portrays the necessity of teamwork. In a fashion, given any big
engineering project, it will always require a team effort to complete the task. A team archetype should consist of people with diverse skills and backgrounds unique from each other; this creates a dynamic for the members to feed off of others’ strengths and compensate for their own weaknesses.
Uniquely, the staff, five lines and four spaces, is the fundamental structure for writing music. Furthermore, music uses the relationship between creativity and constraint to create content. Similarly, engineers use the same relationship to complete projects. Engineers prefer constraint and guidelines over freedom and open-endedness to projects.
While art and music target an audience to engage their emotions, engineering engages a more physical relationship with their audience.
Picasso’s use of abstract shapes and colors lends to the work’s ambiguity; this gives the audience the freedom of interpretation based on their perspective. Similarly, if you give a group of five engineers an open-ended project, one can almost guarantee five different end-products. The difference in results can mainly be attributed to the spectrum of the group’s perspective.
While perspective can dictate individuality, the depiction of three individual with three exclusive musical instruments portrays the necessity of teamwork. In a fashion, given any big
engineering project, it will always require a team effort to complete the task. A team archetype should consist of people with diverse skills and backgrounds unique from each other; this creates a dynamic for the members to feed off of others’ strengths and compensate for their own weaknesses.
Uniquely, the staff, five lines and four spaces, is the fundamental structure for writing music. Furthermore, music uses the relationship between creativity and constraint to create content. Similarly, engineers use the same relationship to complete projects. Engineers prefer constraint and guidelines over freedom and open-endedness to projects.
While art and music target an audience to engage their emotions, engineering engages a more physical relationship with their audience.