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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 10, 2012 at 10:05am: http://waag.org/en/news/winners-bioart-competition-da4ga-2012

Winners bioart competition DA4GA 2012

Living Mirror
Laura Cinti & Howard Boland with the FOM-Institute AMOLF
A liquid image of magnetic bacteria. That is the Living Mirror: an interactive bio-installation in which cells are combined with electronics and photo manipulation. Individuals are captured and translated in a live, 3D-portrait. This image reintroduces the ‘fleshiness’ absent in digital media. Living Mirror connects the history of the mirror in literature and arts.

Fish Bone Chapel
Haseeb Ahmed with the Netherlands Toxigenomics Centre
The Fish Bone Chapel is a hybrid building, existing of fish bones. The vertebrae vaults, scaled walls and beating circulation systems of this architecture are derived from enlarged 3D prints and the skeletal structure of fish exposed to mutagenic toxins. Playfully, the Fish Bone Chapel makes a historical connection with the morbid architecture of the Capuchin Monks who decorated the bones of their brothers to symbolize the transience of life and death.

Ergo Sum
Charlotte Jarvis with the Netherlands Proteomics Centre
The artist Charlotte Jarvis is donating parts of her body to stem cell research. These specimens will be transformed - medically metamorphosed - into induced pluripotent stem cells and then into a range of completely different substances. A second self will be created - a self-portrait, a doppelgänger - made from a collage of synthesised body parts: brain, heart and blood vessels, biologically ‘Charlotte’ yet distinctly alien to her.

Designers & Artists for Genomics is an initiative of the Netherlands Genomics Initiative and Waag Society, sponsored by CSG Centre for Society and the Life Sciences and presented by Naturalis Biodiversity Centre.
Project:
Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 10, 2012 at 9:59am: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/jacobs/should-art-history-be...

Should Art History Be More Like Science?

The history of art as practiced in museums and the academy is sluggish in its embrace of the new technology…. We aren’t conducting art historical research differently. We aren’t working collaboratively and experimentally. As art historians we are still, for the most part, solo practitioners working alone in our studies and publishing in print and online as single authors and only when the work is fully baked. We are still proprietary when it comes to our knowledge. We want sole credit for what we write….

Scientists, social scientists, and engineers don’t work this way. They work collaboratively and publish jointly and quickly for professional review…. In short, humanists largely work alone and on timelines with long horizons. Scientists work together, experimentally, and publish quickly.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 10, 2012 at 9:58am: http://artworks.arts.gov/?p=15592

Art (& Science) Talk with Kerry Tribe

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 10, 2012 at 9:11am: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2012/dec/08/ice-age-art-b...

Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind – in pictures

Images from the British Museum's forthcoming exhibition of ice age artefacts made between 13,000 and 42,000 years ago, which were borrowed from museums across Europe

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 8, 2012 at 8:14am: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=59399#.UMK-...

Just discovered Scharl Portrait of Einstein up for sale for first time

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 8, 2012 at 7:57am: http://io9.com/5966417/gorgeous-minimalist-art-that-strips-science-...

Gorgeous Minimalist Art That Strips Science Fiction Down to its Essence
Charlie Jane Anders

The Musée des Arts Contemporains (MAC) in Belgium is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a special science fiction-themed art exhibition called "SF: Art, Science et Fiction." It brings together the work of a number of artists, to explore the links between science fiction and the arts. The artworks include modern art pieces speculating about scientific concepts, such as the nature of time, as well as postmodern takes on "popular myths" like Superman.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 7, 2012 at 6:56am: http://www.umass.edu/researchnext/renaissance-resurrection-linking-...

Renaissance Resurrection: Linking the History of Science, Art, and Religion

The image above, from a 1592 collection of engravings based on miniatures by the Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel, offers a moralizing, emblematic interpretation of nature. Under the heading “birth, suffering, and death,” a dead mouse admonishes the viewer that life is short and bitter, while the larva, pupa, and adult hawk moth serve as a reminder of the Christian belief in resurrection. This is the first known published illustration of an insect life cycle. Renaissance historian Brian Ogilvie (History Department) is examining early modern depictions and descriptions of insects and other small creatures to find out how they connected art, science, and religion.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 7, 2012 at 6:54am: http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/prnewswire/press_releases/Vir...

Students Discover Biodiversity in National Children's Science-Art Contest

Hundreds of students in grades 2-4 created biodiversity-themed art as part of a national contest, presenting everything from whales, turtles, deer, zebras, and sharks to butterflies and eucalyptus trees.

With the theme "The World's A Place of Living Things," the 17^th annual art contest of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) invited students to share their impressions of biodiversity. Over 400 children submitted artwork for the contest, which addresses national education standards in science, geography and the arts.

In vivid color, students explored the biodiversity in many different regions of the world: from the desert to forests to oceans. Through books, websites and other resources, they researched the contest theme then used their new knowledge to create a visual image of what they had learned.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 6, 2012 at 8:28am: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/12/05/celestial...

Science art of stars and space men

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 5, 2012 at 6:20am: http://www.baltanlaboratories.org/tag/bio-art-laboratories/

the workshop NEIGHBOURHOOD SATELLITES ENERGY HARVESTS
27/11/2012 12:00 to 18:30

Baltan Laboratories and Holst Centre organized an art-science workshop during Shaking Science led by German based artists Myriel Milicevic and Hanspeter Kadel. The workshop took place on November 27th in MU, Emmasingel 20, Eindhoven.

In everyday city living, we are surrounded by waste products from our urban infrastructures – heat waste from air conditioners, light pollution emitted from shop windows, vibration caused by heavy traffic and the loud wails of sirens. But these structural leakages are, in essence, a multitude of free power outlets for anyone wishing to collect them, because light, noise, vibration and heat can all be turned back into usable energy.

Neighbourhood Satellites Energy Harvests examined the practical as well as theoretical possibilities of an alternative, decentralized supply of energy by asking: How can citizens use these surplus energy supplies? What would local micro-power-networks, where free energy can be collected, distributed and exchanged, look like?

In this workshop they followed these questions and constructed small portable harvesters for light pollution.