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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 December 26, 2015 at 9:05am: Art World Inside A Petri Dish
Artist Rogan Brown has elevated that simple seasonal art form and taken it to science class.

These large-scale paper sculptures may evoke snow, but actually trade on the forms of bacteria and other organisms. The patterns may feel familiar, but also a bit alien. You're not looking at a replica of a microbe, but an interpretation of one. And that distinction, Brown says, is important.

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/12/25/460869684/is-th...

Picture Credit: Rogan Brown

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 25, 2015 at 8:09am: Math meets art in Humbel’s January Heider exhibit

“The Fractal Shop: Art Through Mathematics” exhibit by Walter Humbel and ceramic art by Sam David

WHEN: Jan 1-31

WHERE: Marie W. Heider Center for the Arts gallery, 405 E. Hamlin St., West Salem, US

HOURS: 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Mondays, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on other days that school is in session (enter through the district office)

For nine months each year, the art gallery at the Marie W. Heider Performing Arts Center in West Salem highlights regional artists — mostly painters and photographers. In January, however, the gallery is going “high tech” with an exhibit by former West Salem resident Walter Humbel.

Humbel’s show is called “The Fractal Shop: Art Through Mathematics” and it will be up for the entire month of January. For those unfamiliar with the term, “fractal” can be defined as an image “generated by successive subdivisions of a simpler polygon or polyhedron.”
http://lacrossetribune.com/courierlifenews/lifestyles/math-meets-ar...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 25, 2015 at 7:59am: Art–Science Collaborations — Avenues toward Medical Innovation
Cardiovascular stents represent a successful scientific advance, but they may have their origins in art: some stent designs have been inspired by the principles of origami, the Japanese art of paper folding.1 Indeed, art can inform medical science in myriad ways — providing not only inspiration but also insight and a humanizing touch. A collaboration among physicians, artists, and humanities scholars in Britain entitled “Life of Breath,” for instance, is investigating the understanding of breathlessness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), seeking ways in which a multidisciplinary approach can enhance the diagnosis and treatment of this increasingly prevalent disease. Elsewhere as well, it's increasingly common to find artists working closely with medical scientists. Such efforts are an offshoot of broader interdisciplinary art–science collaborations that have a venerable history.

The organization Leonardo — evoking the interdisciplinary investigations of Leonardo da Vinci — was established in 1982 as a forum for exploring the mutual influences of art and science. Similarly, the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology emphasizes an “antidisciplinary culture,” using media arts and sciences to create new technologies. The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative recently convened a conference to explore “art and science, engineering, and medicine frontier collaborations,” encouraging interdisciplinary discussions focused on solving real-world problems. The Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, California, devotes a month-long session each year to art–science collaboration. Countless other organizations are promoting similar work.

Art–science collaborations illuminate methods or procedures used in various disciplines that could enhance medical practice. One point of intersection lies in observation. Artists are deep observers: they use their senses and then assimilate their findings, transforming their insights into artistic expression. But close observation has long been equally essential to scientific investigation: in the 19th century, for example, biology emphasized description and classification, and earlier scientists carefully observed the natural world, even as they contributed to advances, such as the microscope, that enhanced their observational capacity.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1509788

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 24, 2015 at 6:11am: Art & Science Collide At The “Collider” Exhibition
Moving away from the overly-technical aspects of the scientific secrets being explored, the “Collider” exhibit at the ArtScience Museum stays true to the venue’s name by counteracting jargon with art. It’s not just a nerdy day out – it could be a nerdy day out for the whole family.
Collider exhibition, Gift of Mass art installation inspired by discovery of Higgs boson

Touted as “the world’s greatest experiment”, the Large Hadron Collider was built to explore fundamental questions about the universe we live in, like what is it made from and why is there matter in the universe. The LHC is essentially searching for the initial moment of creation and why everything stays as it is after creation.

Moving away from the overly-technical aspects of the scientific secrets being explored, the “Collider” exhibit at the ArtScience Museum stays true to the venue’s name by counteracting jargon with art. It’s not just a nerdy day out – it could be a nerdy day out for the whole family.

The exhibition sheds light on the breakthroughs that CERN have achieved, but with a candid touch – parts of the showcase are recreations of the CERN offices themselves!
Collider exhibition, Gift of Mass art installation inspired by discovery of Higgs boson

To end off the tour, a special area titled “The Collision Space” allows for young explorers to summarise all they have learnt from the exhibit, even utilising LEGO bricks to demonstrate the Higgs particle and its effects!
The “Gift of Mass” is an interactive art installation presented by the ArtScience Museum in conjunction with the original “Collider” exhibit that began at the established Science Museum in London. This interactive multi-screen installation is a special project conceived in 2012, a few months after the discovery of the Higgs boson, by Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) in collaboration with embrio.net collective and the artist Paolo Scoppola.

So come on down for the “Collider” exhibit – now showing at the ArtScience Museum till 14 February 2016
http://popspoken.com/arts/2015/12/art-science-collide-collider-exhi...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 24, 2015 at 5:51am: The Big Picture: Cell biology as art

Exhibit presents the beauty that scientists uncover in the process of scientific inquiry.
Cell biology as art

The exhibit Cell Biology as Art opens Sept. 15 in the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center Atrium at 520 South Euclid Ave. Free and open to the public, the exhibit continues through Oct. 3.

“The fundamental science of biology is the study of cells. Cells often exist in communities where they work together to carry out complex functions in response to the environment and coordinate the activities that form the essential systems of life. Scientists who study cells explore basic molecular mechanisms and cellular functions. They have the opportunity to explore the intricate interplay between cells in the process of the formation of functional tissues. The understanding of these functions and interactions in 'normal' cells is crucial for identifying the underlying mechanisms of human disease, knowledge that lays the foundation for developing therapeutic targets and novel therapies to counter disease.

“A powerful way to elucidate cell function is to use microscopy to visualize the organization of molecules within the cell and the architecture of cells within tissues. The images presented in this exhibit reveal the beauty that we, as scientists, uncover in the process of our scientific inquiry. The color palate available to us to 'paint' target cells or molecules is limited by the technical restrictions of the microscope. But the beauty of the images obtained using a limited number of colors provides a stunning snapshot of the art of life.

“Art is a visual language that inspires thought, imagination, and questioning — actions that also ground the creative work of scientists in the laboratory. The images in this exhibit are unlabeled to allow viewers to explore the works through their own artistic imaginations, developing a unique lens through which to appreciate the art of cell biology and to realize that, for the scientist, art can become a crucial source of scientific ideas.”

https://outlook.wustl.edu/2014/aug/cell-biology/
http://medicine.wustl.edu/news/cell-biology-as-art/

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 18, 2015 at 10:26am: Artist "Paints" With Nanoparticles Inspired by Butterfly Wings
Combining art and science comes naturally to Kate Nichols. The colors in her pieces don’t come from pigment, but from tiny silver nanoparticles suspended in the paint. She makes them herself, as artist-in resident in the University of California, Berkeley’s nanotechnology research group.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 16, 2015 at 9:03am: Art is especially good for young students, according to the first large-scale, randomized-control study to measure what students learn from school tours of art museums. Reported in Education Next, the study shows that students exposed to museums, galleries and performing arts centers display better critical thinking skills and education memory — along with greater tolerance, historical understanding and other attributes we all want instilled in our children and grandchildren.

Interviewed about his study recently in Fast Company magazine, Jay P. Greene, from the University of Arkansas, said the changes in aptitude and attitude “were measurable and significant.”

http://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/readers-opinion/article499462...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 16, 2015 at 9:01am: Alongside an unprecedented number of heads of state, COP21 (Climate talks in Paris) also witnessed an unprecedented number of artists gathering in Paris for the “conference of creative parties”, ArtCOP21. In doing so, a global network of cultural engagements with climate change was created.

The scientific community increasingly recognises the value of interdisciplinary action in the face of problems such as climate change, and the perspectives of social sciences are increasingly valued. But the prospects of arts and humanities are less often appreciated. As well as the poster-art activism of Brandalism, and the numerous film screenings, art installations, performance works and participatory art activities that took place during the talks, a growing number of arts organisations including Cape Farewell, Julie’s Bicycle and Tipping Point advocate passionately for the value of creative responses to climate change.
https://theconversation.com/why-art-has-a-part-to-play-in-tackling-...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 15, 2015 at 8:09am: And who says science doesn't deal with aesthetics? Here is the proof. Science-art , cosmic show of science...

Image credit: The Hubble Helix Team and Dr. Travis Rector, of the Helix Nebula.

Image credit: T.A. Rector (NOAO/AURA/NSF) & the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA), WIYN Observatory and Kitt Peak, Arizona.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 15, 2015 at 7:54am: Stunning Satellite Image Proves Science Can Be Art and aesthetically pleasant!

Who painted this? Van Gogh ? No! The image above isn’t an impressionist’s creation—it’s a slice of the North Atlantic Ocean, with a bit of post-processing to accentuate the confluence of physics and biology.

Captured on September 23rd, 2015 by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite, the blue green spirals above are dense algae blooms: waters laden with the microscopic photosynthetic critters that produce half the world’s oxygen.

Algae blooms can be quite striking on their own. But after this image was compiled using red, green and blue bands from VIIRS, as well as chlorophyll data, it was processed to highlight the swirling motion of eddy currents. These currents bring cold, nutrient-rich waters from the deep ocean to the surface—feeding the tiny plant creatures that ride them like surfers on a tremendous wave.