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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 April 29, 2012 at 5:57am: Lensless photography:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alanjaras/sets/72057594139866667/

Images obtained by the refraction patterns formed when light passes through various shaped and formed plastics. By careful control and manipulation of the forming process semi-regular patterns and delicate tracery can be achieved. Also the integration of liquid colours into the soft plastic modifies the way the plastic hardens and hence the associated refraction patterns.

This is 'lensless' photography - here the object itself becomes the lens.

'Taming Light' set may also be of interest:
www.flickr.com/photos/alanjaras/sets/721 57594422498771/
and also the 'Bending Light' set.
www.flickr.com/photos/alanjaras/sets/720 57594061844447/

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 29, 2012 at 5:55am: Light Architecture: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/30/view/20733/michael-jantzen-...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 28, 2012 at 5:57am: http://biocreativity.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/art-from-the-ashes-be...
Art from Ashes -show for the cause of environment

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 27, 2012 at 8:43am: http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2012/04/origami_japanese_american_na...

A major new exhibition, "Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami" at the Japanese American National Museum, rapidly disabuses us of this simplistic image, showing origami to be a highly sophisticated and significant contemporary art form.

Featuring 150 works by 40 international artists from 16 countries, the exhibition demonstrates that not only can origami be exquisitely beautiful but it's also capable of inspiring engineers, conveying complex political commentary and acting as a conduit for spiritual expression.

How Origami Changed Science, From Heart Stents to Airbags

What do cutting-edge developments in heart stents, air bag logistics and space telescope lenses have in common with a folded paper frog? These advances in technological design all are based on the principles of origami -- an ancient sculptural art form with strong links to mathematics, engineering and science. Many of the folders who have elevated origami to its new place in the art world are not only accomplished artists but also respected mathematicians or scientists. There is no end of artistic and intellectual challenge in the world of origami and its accompanying mathematics. Origami scratches all the itches that physics did and much more. This facilitates global communication between artists and scientists.

One of the origami-based algorithms has been used in German software that simulates air bag deployment, giving manufacturers the first geometrically correct way to fold a three-dimensional air bag, enabling them to do fewer air bag crash tests. Eyeglass Telescope, designed to be 40 times larger than the Hubble Telescope and equipped with a diffractive lens the length of a football pitch. Computational origami was used to determine how to fold the lens compactly so that it would fit inside a small rocket and then reopen in space. He dubbed the origami structure "the umbrella" for its resemblance to one. The final project remains unbuilt, but a 5-meter-diameter prototype was tested successfully in 2002.

The water-bomb base technique -- a rounded cube form that folds flat and can be inflated through a hole in one corner -- to create a prototype from stainless steel that can be reduced from a width of 23 mm to just 12 mm. The stent, which was finally produced in bioplastic, is threaded into a blood vessel, maneuvered into position in a blocked artery and then opened up to 23 mm again to prop open the artery and restore blood flow.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 26, 2012 at 9:20am: http://www.capradio.org/news/insight/2012/04/26/insight-capitol-cha...

Creativity in Art and Science Is creativity more important in the arts or sciences? Nobel Prize winning physicist, Martin Perl, and his son, New Republican Art Critic Jed Perl, join us for a discussion on the importance of creativity in art versus science. They will be leading a talk Thursday, April 26^th titled, "A father and son discuss creativity in art and science" at the UC Davis Conference Center.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 26, 2012 at 9:16am: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/25/world/asia/philiippines-mind-museum/

Artists work to popularise science in museum

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 26, 2012 at 9:01am: http://www.theacorn.com/news/2012-04-26/Schools/Teacher_wins_BRAVO_...

Teacher wins award for introducing art to teach science.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 26, 2012 at 8:59am: http://www.cornellsun.com/section/science/content/2012/04/25/%E2%80...

Last weekend, select artists from around the world and distinguished Cornell scientists gathered at Willard Straight Hall and Milstein Hall to present an exhibition that combined both science and art through the medium of light.

“LUX: Art and Science Exhibition,” the first display of its kind, promoted innovation and investigation within the arts and the hard sciences. Seven renowned “light” artists drew, sculpted and transformed light, altering how people normally interact with its luminosity. From mapping the universe to drawing with dust particles, the art installations attracted not just artists, but also scientists, engineers and architects.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 26, 2012 at 8:47am: http://www.artworksforchange.org/exhibition/natures-toolbox-biodive...

“Nature’s Toolbox” is a celebration of biodiversity, creativity, and ingenuity.

Venues

The Field Museum , Chicago, Illinois, USA | May – December 2012
The Leonardo, Salt Lake City, Utah | January – June 2013
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas l August — December 2013

For more information email Info@ArtWorksforChange.org

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 26, 2012 at 6:51am: http://www.ndtv.com/article/south/science-of-music-centre-inaugurat...

The Inter-university Centre for Science of Music, intended to take up research in the field and serve as an inter-disciplinary platform, was inaugurated at Kottayam, Kerala, India on Tuesday.

Speaking on the occasion, Rural Development, Planning and Culture Minister KC Joseph promised to extend all support from the government to the centre, set up here with the financial support of the Kerala Government.

The state government had sanctioned Rs. 50 lakh for the centre, which will focus on inter-disciplinary studies of science of music including education, music therapy and related areas.