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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 May 19, 2013 at 5:01am: http://www.popsci.com/category/tags/science-art
8 Of The Year's Most Oddly Gorgeous Science Images

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 19, 2013 at 4:59am: http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/space-can-still-inspire-a...

Space can still inspire artists and scientists

Cutting arts budgets could damage the collaboration between disciplines that has helped make London great
Commander Hadfield’s flight to perfection ended when he returned to Earth with a bump in the Kazakhstan steppe earlier this week. Let’s make sure that London’s creative explosion does not end as abruptly as a result of next month’s cuts. We need the relationship between science, engineering and the arts to thrive. After sitting in his tin can, far above the world where Planet Earth is blue, and there’s nothing left to do, Hadfield, with his combination of music, images, humour and palpable awe, has reminded us all of the magic of the great human space adventure. We all need to take in the bigger picture, a global view of the sparkling synergies between art and science that can take us to enthralling new heights.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 19, 2013 at 4:58am: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23562-hunting-pack-of-bacteri...
Hunting pack of bacteria paints a tangled skein
Bacteria that glide together… make art together? This contender in the Art of Science competition run by Princeton University in New Jersey, entitled The history of gliding, depicts the squiggly gliding paths of the bacteria Myxococcus xanthus.

M. xanthus are social bacteria that move in coordinated packs to hunt prey efficiently and protect one another. Mingzhai Sun and Joshua Shaevitz, both of Princeton, recorded their paths for 4 hours to create this intertwined pattern, which shows where groups of hundreds of thousands of bacteria travelled together. The colours indicate the time elapsed on their journeys, with blue representing the start and red the end.

See the winners of the competition, along with the science behind them, in the Science as Art 2013 gallery.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 19, 2013 at 4:56am: http://www.tuaw.com/2013/05/17/daily-ipad-app-nasas-earth-as-art-sh...
Daily iPad App: NASA's Earth As Art shows us our beautiful planet

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 19, 2013 at 4:55am: http://www.southbendtribune.com/news/sbt-pursuing-her-passions-2013...
Pursuing her passions
Saint Mary's graduate earns dual degrees in art, science.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 19, 2013 at 4:53am: http://www.complex.com/art-design/2013/05/new-workspace-lab-cambrid...
New Workspace "Lab Cambridge" Will Help Artists and Scientists Collaborate
Many wonders of the world being explored in labs double as beautiful visuals. It's this phenomena that is being explored in a new exhibition opening next year in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Lab Cambridge will provide a collaborative space in which scientists and artists will create works. The project is basically an American version of Le Laboratoire in Paris. Both the American and Paris versions of the exhibition were created by Harvard professor and active entrepreneur David Edwards. He will teach his Ivy League class at Lab Cambridge, which will be located in D.C.'s Kendall Square.

“Kendall Square is near such a big scientific community with MIT and Harvard and all the biotech firms," said Carrie Fitzsimmons, executive director of ArtScience Labs and director of Lab Cambridge. "But mostly no one know what’s going on inside these laboratories, and what we’re trying to do is open up this space for an open dialogue.”

To get a sense of what to expect from the project, the Paris center has presented works such as “The Olfactive Project” in which artists and scientist try to create an electronic version of coffee that can be sent anywhere. The center also hosted Cira Najle’s “Cummulus” installation that displayed clouds and emphasized notions of atmosphere and water in the air we breathe.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 19, 2013 at 4:51am: http://www.wral.com/dinosaurs-in-motion-melds-art-science-to-create...
Dinosaurs in Motion melds art, science to create stunning exhibit
Payne, an artist and kinetic sculptor, saw an opportunity to meld science and art. So he got to work, creating dinosaurs that museumgoers can not only look at and marvel over, but actually move themselves.
The exhibit features 14 life-size metal sculptures, including a 44-foot-long T. Rex. The pieces can be moved by using either a lever-and-pulley system or remote control. The exhibit tells the story of Payne's work to create the dinosaurs and the mechanics and materials he used, along information about the dinosaurs themselves. The idea here is to meld art with traditional science, technology, engineering and math (better known as STEM subjects) to create STEAM.

The exhibit begins with static sculptures and then moves along to show how Payne brought them to life – first with cables, then electricity, motors and robotics. The dinosaurs are down to their bare bones, so to speak. These are sculptures of dinosaur skeletons, which allow visitors to see exactly how each moves.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 19, 2013 at 4:38am: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21890033
Power of Art: Can painting improve your grades?

Over the last several years the focus of US education has been fixed firmly on the sciences. But research shows that the arts help children do better in all subjects and improve the likelihood that they will stay in school longer.

The Obama administration is putting this theory to the test by investing $2m (£1.3m) for arts education in eight of the most poorly performing schools across the country.

At Orchard Gardens Pilot School in Boston, the results have been dramatic. In just three years the students at the once-troubled school have improved their basic academic skills and many say the arts have changed their lives.

Jane O'Brien looks at the impact of art in education in the sixth and final instalment of the Power of Art series.
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Using arts as a fundamental tool for education increases attendance, raises academic performance and may reduce behavioral problems. Why is this? Well, the research hasn't produced a definitive answer, however a study is underway to track performance of students in lower income areas in schools provided with a new arts integrated curriculum.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 18, 2013 at 8:02am: http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/space-can-still-inspire-a...
Space can still inspire artists and scientists
Commander Hadfield’s flight to perfection ended when he returned to Earth with a bump in the Kazakhstan steppe earlier this week. Let’s make sure that London’s creative explosion does not end as abruptly as a result of next month’s cuts. We need the relationship between science, engineering and the arts to thrive. After sitting in his tin can, far above the world where Planet Earth is blue, and there’s nothing left to do, Hadfield, with his combination of music, images, humour and palpable awe, has reminded us all of the magic of the great human space adventure. We all need to take in the bigger picture, a global view of the sparkling synergies between art and science that can take us to enthralling new heights.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 18, 2013 at 6:47am: ELASTIC DIMENSIONS - The Quantum Parallelograph, Book Sale and documentary videos

The Arts Catalyst, 50-54 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1M 5PS

Saturday 18 May 2013, noon-8pm

The Arts Catalyst is opening for a special day along with other contemporary art venues in Clerkenwell and King’s Cross on Saturday 18 May 2013 for the first EC1 & WC1 Gallery Day.

Designer Patrick Stevenson-Keating will be demonstrating his 'Quantum Parallelograph', which enables participating visitors to explore their parallel identities in a work that reflects on some of the scientific and philosophical ideas surrounding the theory of quantum physics and multiple universes.

Come and find out more about The Arts Catalyst's projects, through documentation videos of past artists' projects, including Tomas Saraceno’s Poetic Cosmos of the Breath (2007), Simon Faithfull’s Escape Vehicle No 6 (2004); The Making of Rachel Mayeri’s Primate Cinema: Apes as Family (2011), Attention Weightlessness, Critical Art Ensemble’s Genterra 2002, and a new film of the Great Glen Artists' Airshow (2010