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“Study the science of art and the art of science.” - Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci: "Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses and especially, learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else" and "only through experimentation can we know anything."

Science is the king of art subjects. It is the art of inventions, discoveries, innovations and gaining more knowledge.

"Science is the new art".

Science-art: selling art to scientists and science to artists.

Education is all about learning all those you want to learn and applying wherever possible.

Albert Einstein’s quote — “the greatest scientists are artists as well”.

Science has always relied on visual representation to convey key concepts.

‘If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it.’ - Albert Einstein

Math is undeniably artistic

An interdisciplinary researcher must face the challenge of being proficient in two (or multiple) different research areas! Not only must s/he be familiar with key principles and methodology in each area, but also understand baseless "biases" and "dogmas" that are a result of inbreeding, and struggle to fight these, as new knowledge emerges from her/his research. An unenviable task indeed! The pointlessness of evaluating such researchers work with conventional metrics should be aptly emphasized.

“The best scientists, engineers and mathematicians are incredibly creative in their approaches to problem-solving and application development”.

"Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her." – Jacob Bronowski

In scientia veritas, in arte honestas — in science truth, in art honor

E.W. Sinnot, the American biologist and philosopher: "Stored images in the mind are the basis for new creative ideas."

Science based art and literature : communicating complexity through simplicity - Krishna

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
--Physicist and Violinist Albert Einstein

Music gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything by Anonymous

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art - Will Durant

Life itself is a beautiful interaction between art and science. You can't escape it! - Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa

"The Science of Art is like putting a microphone to the whispers of creativity that echo through the halls of every research laboratory fused with the late night musings of the artists in their studios" - Sachi DeCou

“Every Science begins as Philosophy and ends as Art, it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement”- Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy

Scientists can be artists as well, while they submit their academic papers, and theses they often draw their own illustrations!

Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.
-Eckhart Tolle

Science has enabled the kind of art we’ve never before seen.

Without the arts, science is hobbled. Without science, art is static.

John Maeda wrote of Leonardo da Vinci’s observations that art is the queen of science.

“Science is as much cultural as art is cultural,”

Art is science made clear (what!).

"The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." - Aristotle.

Science is a search for answers, based on logic, rationality and verification. Its workplace is the laboratory.

In contrast, art is a search for questions, based on intuition, feeling and speculation. Its workplace is the studio.

DaVinci himself said, "Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world. "
"Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on canvas, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order." - Luis J. Rodriguez.

For Dawkins, understanding the science behind natural phenomena (and sometimes being reminded of how much more we have yet to learn or discover) can still make our encounters with them sublime. From this point of view, science is the champion of artistic creativity, not its enemy.

"Scientists and artists are both trying to get a better understanding of the world around us, but they are doing it through different lenses,"

It takes many skills to achieve truly remarkable things. A diverse view to solving problems is best.

You need a deep understanding of science to actually manipulate concepts in novel ways and get creative in science - Krishna

"If you hear a voice within you saying, 'You are not a painter,' then by all means paint ... and that voice will be silenced, but only by working."
-- Vincent van Gogh, in a letter to his brother Theo, 28 October 1883.

"The line between art and science is a thin one, and it waves back and forth”

"One of the most common misconceptions about science is that it isn't creative — that it is inflexible, prescribed or boring. Actually, creativity is a crucial part of how we do science"!

"All knowledge has its origins in perception." Da Vinci.

“The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it; and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful." Jules Henri Poincare

The beauty of art lies in the inimitable creativity of the artist and in the interpretation of the beholder.

"Artists see things one way and scientists another and the really interesting thing is in what's in between."

Einstein’s support of artistic endeavors is both well-known and well-documented.

“The greatest scientists are artists as well,” he once said.

Atul Dodiya (Indian Artist) : Life is beautiful as a painter. Changing colour, observing life and paying attention to every detail that we’re exposed to, and then giving our own vision to it… Nothing gives me more joy.

Art : You accomplish a task that is called art as there is no specific postulates or guidelines.

Science : You do the work with a set of guidelines.

"Change and risk-taking are normal aspects of the creative process. They are the lubricants that keep the wheels in motion. A creative act is not necessarily something that has never been done; it is something you have never done."
-- Nita Leland in The Creative Artis

Pablo Picasso once said, "Good artists copy, great artists steal." All creative artists build upon the work established by the masters before them. ( Not me!- Krishna)

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep – Scott Adams

‘Art makes science come alive for students’

Albert Einstein - “The greatest scientists are artists as well”.

“ Science art shows some of the incredible natural beauty that researchers in life sciences see every day in their work.”

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Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on July 11, 2015 at 12:48pm: FASEB Announces Annual BioArt Competition

The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) launched the fourth annual BioArt competition and is accepting entries through August 31. Participants are invited to submit captivating, high-resolution images and videos produced as part of cutting-edge life science research. The competition is open to members of FASEB constituent societies as well as to other biomedical and life scientists who can demonstrate current or previous funding from a US federal agency.
To learn more about the competition or submit an entry, please visit www.faseb.org/bioart or contact FASEB at BioArt@faseb.org.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on July 10, 2015 at 8:38am: Physics: The impulse of beauty

Joseph Silk
Joseph Silk revels in Frank Wilczek's treatise on how symmetry and harmony drive the progress of science.
Nature
523,
156–157
(09 July 2015)
doi:10.1038/523156a

Published online
08 July 2015
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v523/n7559/full/523156a.html

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on July 10, 2015 at 8:36am: The art of science
Putting the spotlight on creativity in science, WA scientist Gary Cass illustrated how easy it is to create artistic works using saturated salt solutions.

At a recent Microscopic Crystal Art Workshop held in Karratha, Gary grew crystals onto microscope slides and then used polarising light filters to show the audience how the crystals transformed and changed colour, resulting in spectacular works of art.

Each participant had the chance to create their own microscopic crystal art, and to take home photographs of their masterpiece.

For many of the attendees it was also a chance to use a high magnification light microscope for the very first time.

Gary also shared his other art and science collaborations such as the creation of an designer dress made out of fermented beer, which will be on display at the World Expo 2015 in Milan.
http://sciencewa.net.au/-events/item/3670-the-art-of-science

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on July 8, 2015 at 8:13am: Artist's 'mind-blowing' images of the brain - artwork of Greg Dunn
Dunn is not your run-of-the-mill fine artist. Instead of going to art school, he experimented with painting during his time as a neuroscience graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D in 2011 and has worked as a full-time professional artist since. Aside from his paintings, he also uses a reflective microetching technique that he invented in collaboration with Penn physicist Brian Edwards. Microetching allows flat surfaces to be seen as three-dimensional by using tiny engraved ridges to manipulate how light reflects off the piece.

A new exhibit featuring Dunn's artwork opened Friday at the Mütter Museum in Center City. Called “Mind Illuminated,” it will display a number of his paintings and microetchings in the Mütter's art space, Thomson Gallery, until the end of December. A free gallery reception will be held Thursday for the public from 6 to 8 p.m.
Dunn's work, which hangs at Johns Hopkins University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Society of Neuroscience headquarters, to name a few. In spring, the Franklin Institute will display an enormous 8-foot by 12-foot microetching of neurons that could very well be the most complex artistic piece to depict the human brain.
http://www.gregadunn.com/

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on July 3, 2015 at 1:18pm: Where no scientist has gone before...the arts
Glaser’s work monitored the brain waves of dancers and capoeira practitioners as they viewed examples of each other's styles of performance. The subjects demonstrated activity in their movement cortex in response to motion they were familiar with, more so than actions they hadn't previously performed. While the findings of physical empathy were pivotal in underscoring Glaser's notions of perception and projecting meaning out into the world – as demonstrated by existing knowledge colouring mental reactions to sequences seen – the experiment also put his theory about the successful interface of art and science into action. Figures from both fields worked together, drawing upon their own skillsets, to explore an issue of interest to each, with the findings they inspired useful to everyone.
Glaser proposes an interdisciplinary approach which does not break all boundaries but allows scientists and artists to come together with both ‘convergent and divergent’ way of interacting. Artists and scientists meet over common ground to ponder a defined problem or task before going back to their own areas.

More important than what they work on is where they are able to do so. He celebrates the act of ‘opening up space for unexpected interactions’, including in the most humble and pervasive of meeting points: bars, cafes, and other places where "art and science can collide because everyone’s voice is equal."
http://www.artshub.com.au/news-article/news/trends-and-analysis/sar...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on July 3, 2015 at 1:15pm: To Better Understand Lava, an Artist and Scientist Make Their Own
A lab at Syracuse University creates melts basaltic rock in a modified furnace
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/better-understand-lava-art...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on July 3, 2015 at 1:11pm: ‘Art Meets Science’ show set for July

The opening of the Art Meets Science exhibit “Is it Art or is It Science?” at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Salisbury Cove is set for Thursday, July 9, from 5-7 p.m. The event, sponsored by The First and First Advisors, offers an opportunity to view art inspired by science, meet the artists, visit research laboratories and enjoy refreshments.

This fourth annual Art Meets Science exhibit includes work from 40 artists from Maine, the U.S. and abroad. The work of two featured sculptors, James Wolfe of Northport and Jens Zorn is displayed both indoors and around the laboratory’s coastal campus. Wolfe “draws” in steel using strips, bars and rounds with intense chromatic colors that are powder coated and baked onto the steel. Zorn’s three-dimensional aluminum forms are derived from two-dimensional blackboard sketches and written symbols used by scientists.

As part of the Art Meets Science program, collaborations between artists and MDI Biological Laboratory scientists will be on display.

After the July 9 reception, the exhibit is available for viewing during the new Art Meets Science Café series at the MDI Biological Laboratory, offered in partnership with Littlefield Gallery. The cafés feature guest artists discussing the influence of science on their work. Art Meets Science Cafés are open to the public free of charge, and refreshments are available. To register for a tour or the opening reception, visit mdibl.org/events/art-meets-science.

http://www.mdislander.com/living/arts-a-living/art-meets-science-re...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on July 2, 2015 at 11:50am: Bio-imaging art
Biologist Louise Hughes heads the bio-imaging unit at Oxford Brookes University in the UK. Also a multimedia artist, she makes labwork-inspired jewellery — including gold pieces based on structures such as the hepatitis virus. Here she talks electron microscopy, centrioles and chromosome earrings.
http://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2015/07/01/the-bio-imagi...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on June 27, 2015 at 9:29am: Mathematical Art Takes a Fresh Look at Wallpaper ( book)
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10435.html
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/mathematical-art-tak...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on June 6, 2015 at 8:27am: Professions that will be in demand in the future:

A science artist is a professional that in their creative activity utilizes scientific data and knowledge. Science-art is not only practiced by independent artists, but is also supported by major educational institutes, such as MIT, which has a Science, Art and Technology Center.
- http://asia.rbth.com/science_and_tech/2015/06/05/which_professions_...)