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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 September 24, 2013 at 5:48am: Imag(in)ing Science
The Grunwald Gallery of Art presented Imag(in)ing Science, an exhibit and series of events based on collaborative projects by artist and scientist teams from Indiana University. The exhibit opened to the public with a panel discussion on Friday, August 30, from 5 to 6pm in the Grunwald Gallery. The panel discussion featured several of the artist/scientist teams and the discussion centered on the theme of collaboration and a general overall investigation into the creative nature of the visual arts and its similarities and differences to scientific exploration.

http://theengineinstitute.org/imagining-science

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 24, 2013 at 5:38am: http://dailyranger.com/story.php?story_id=9229&headline=Innovat...
Innovative mural at Health/Sci rarely looks the same twice

Sep 22, 2013 - By Katie Roenigk, Staff Writer

The new mural hanging in the Health and Science Center at Central Wyoming College is likely to draw a second look from passersby.

The art piece is made up of 42 eight-by-eight-inch glass tiles that create the illusion of movement as they portray objects and scenes specific to the facility and the region. The images follow a scientific theme, beginning with a single atom and eventually growing to incorporate the entire galaxy.

"This is really the perfect blend of art and science," said Kathi Miller, a community member who helped pick the artwork. "I just can't imagine a better piece."

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 23, 2013 at 6:56am: http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/arts/headlines/20130921-art...
Art: Nine exhibitions to see in Dallas-Fort Worth Dallas Morning News
This show involves the fascinating interrelationship of art and science in Islamic culture, and all the objects chosen deal in some way with light, or in Arabic.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 23, 2013 at 6:33am: http://www.artlyst.com/articles/new-media-exhibition-space-launches...
New Media Exhibition Space Launches At London's Science Museum
Opening this weekend 21 September 2013 at the Science Museum in Kensington,London is Media Space a brand new exhibition area. It will showcase the National Photography Collection held by the National Media Museum through a series of major shows. A collaboration between the Science Museum and the National Media Museum, Media Space will also invite photographers, artists and the creative industries to respond to the wider collections of the Science Museum Group to explore visual media, technology and science.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 22, 2013 at 6:34am: http://nerdlypainter.wordpress.com/2013/09/20/painting-with-glass-l...!
Fun with Optics
An attempt at stacking the lenses and optics incorporated into a painting

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 21, 2013 at 8:40am: http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Beakerhead+festival+succ...
The perfect way to close out the last weekend of summer 2013 was by attending any of the scores of Beakerhead events.

Beakerhead, which ran Sept. 11-15, was billed as “The most amazing convergence of art, science and engineering.” Further, the festival “brings together art and engineering from across the city, province, country and world to build, compete and exhibit interactive works of art, spectacle and entertainment during an annual weeklong smash-up of art, science and engineering each fall.”

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 21, 2013 at 8:25am: http://hinsdale.suntimes.com/things-to-do/arts/picasso-HIN-09192013...
Hinsdale Central drama explores art and science
Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso walk into a bar . . .

That’s the setting for the Hinsdale Central High School Drama Club’s first play of the school year. The club will perform “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” next week.

Comedian, actor and writer Steve Martin’s play tells of a fictional meeting of Einstein and Picasso in a Paris bar in 1904.

“It’s set about a year before Picasso and Einstein really become famous,” said Jackson Dockery, a junior from Clarendon Hills, who plays an art dealer in the play.

“Steve Martin is a great writer,” Dockery said. “Einstein and Picasso really play off each other.”

The play poses the questions, “What defines a genius?” and “What affects our society more, art or science?” Dockery said.

He believes the way Picasso and Einstein are portrayed is fairly authentic, although the actors are free to interpret the characters.

“We all make the characters our own,” Dockery said. “I watched other productions on You Tube that are completely different from this one.”

The play, with 11 roles, is a good fit for the Drama Club.

“Everyone is perfectly cast, and everyone has their time to shine,” Dockery said. “No matter how big or small their part, they’re hilarious.”

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 21, 2013 at 8:24am: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24177683
Science Museum opens art archive in Media Space
The Science Museum has launched a photography and art gallery to show off its extensive collection that has been largely hidden.

The £4.5m project is a collaboration between the Science Museum and the National Media Museum in Bradford.

The Media Space opens on 21 September.
Mr Blatchford said there was a definite correlation between art and science and said Vivienne Westwood had put it best in a speech she gave at the museum.

"When people say what do scientists have in common with artists, she said 'basically there are two types of people in the world and the thing about great artists and great scientists is that they have great imagination - they can see the world differently', and so that's why having great artists here is very valuable," he said.

The Media Space is running two very different exhibitions for its launch: one featuring the work of respected photographers Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr, and the other a digital installation using the latest techniques and user interactivity.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 21, 2013 at 6:54am: http://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2013/september/story96947.html
Electrical Engineer Turns Particle Physics into Art
Particle accelerators are massive structures, used to find the tiniest details of our universe. Scientists around the world flock to these facilities to try out theories, hunt for particles and seek to understand a fully unified theory of physics.
Johnson’s work goes beyond the science at this facility, though. Fusing science and creativity, he crafts art from the energy of the Tevatron.
A few years into his tenure in Batavia, Johnson met some like-minded scientist-artists. “Around 2005 I met Bert Hickman, a retired engineer from Lucent who was very much into high voltage hobbies,” Johnson explains. “He, along with a couple other associates, had been developing a recipe to make Lichtenberg Figures (sculptures making use of branching electric discharges) in acrylic plastic, using a particle accelerator (a technique going back to the 1940's, actually). I volunteered to assist on one of their production runs in 2007 and was immediately fascinated by the process and the possibilities for pushing the technique fuarther.

Johnson has been working on his own pieces since then. “We only get to do this at most two days a year, so there is a lot of careful planning involved, and the progress in techniques is fairly slow, but we're now doing things no one has ever done before with this medium,” he says.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 21, 2013 at 6:44am: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/09/laurie-andersons-art-tu...
Performance artist Laurie Anderson continues to address the effects of technology and alienation on modern-day society in her latest work, “Dirtday!” She performs it Sept. 21 at the State Theatre, and joins a panel discussion on art and science Sept. 22 as part of the Museum of the Earth’s 10th anniversary celebration.

“Dirtday!” is “a series of linked stories, kind of my favorite mode to work in, which leaves a lot of room for people to make connections between them,” Anderson said. “They are ranging all over the place, from theories about evolution to some sort of dreamlike imagery.”

Performed around the world since 2012, “Dirtday!” is more storytelling than multimedia – there are some short films, music and a minimal stage set: a comfortable chair, about 80 candles and a music stand.