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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 October 1, 2015 at 7:20am: Strata: Art and Science Collaborations in the Anthropocene
SYMPOSIUM: Aberystwyth University welcomes proposals that consider how art and science collaborations are responding to the Anthropocene debate by representing the impacts of human activity on Earth. The symposium is concurrent with the exhibition ‘Stranded’ by Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey, and is a collaboration between the School of Art and the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences.
Deadline: Tues 10 November 2015
http://cargocollective.com/artscienceclimatechange/Strata-Art-and-S...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 1, 2015 at 7:19am: RESIDENCY: The Finnish Society of Bioart together with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki in the sub-Arctic Lapland, are running a residency with an emphasis on art and science collaborations and the Arctic environment. It is open to artists, scientists and research teams.
Deadline: Fri 30 October 2015
http://bioartsociety.fi/ars-bioarctica-residency

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 30, 2015 at 8:32am: Artists use DNA designs to honor Francis Crick — and fund the fight against cancer
The granddaughter of genetic pioneer Francis Crick joined 20 other artists to create a series of 7-foot-high sculptures inspired by DNA’s double helix – and now those sculptures are going on the auction block to benefit cancer research.

Portland artist Kindra Crick told GeekWire she took on the project for several reasons: She’s trained as a molecular biologist as well as a painter, and her grandparents include the late Nobel-winning biologist and his artist wife, Odile Crick. What’s more, proceeds from the auction will go to the Francis Crick Institute, a London facility that’s due to open next year with backing from Cancer Research UK and five other leading medical research organizations. The two-week online sale begins on Wednesday.
http://www.geekwire.com/2015/artists-use-dna-designs-to-honor-franc...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 30, 2015 at 8:17am: Understanding the hidden dimensions of modern physics through the arts
https://theconversation.com/understanding-the-hidden-dimensions-of-...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 26, 2015 at 9:49am: Close-Up Science Pictures Make Beautiful Artwork
The pictures submitted to the 2015 National Health and Medical Research Council 'Science to Art' Awards -- which are, quite frankly, mind-boggling.

For those not familiar with the Awards ( Australia), they are dedicated to recognising outstanding artworks which have arisen from research funded by NHMRC. That's right -- the gorgeous images you'll see below are also actually part of real-life medical research.
The artworks range from close ups of a healing heart to colon crypts to something called CDX macrophages -- which may or may not mean anything to you.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2015/09/24/science-to-art_n_818693...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 26, 2015 at 9:44am: Microbes as Art: TRU biology images inspire exhibition at the World of Science in Vancouver
A collection of art inspired by a Thompson Rivers University professor’s microbe scans will be featured at Telus World of Science in Vancouver.

The exhibit entitled "Microbes Art Us", is a version of the 2014 Kamloops Art Gallery and TRU Art Gallery shows “Cave Microorganisms and Drug Discovery: A Collaboration Between TRU Microbiology Researchers and Artists.”

Dr. Naowarat Cheeptham, a microbiology professor at the university, was inspired by several electron micrograph images she collected during the course of her drug research. A micrograph is a microscope capable of capturing images of things as small as grains of pollen, or in this case, microbes.
http://infotel.ca/newsitem/microbes-as-art-tru-biology-images-inspi...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 26, 2015 at 6:05am: Mona Lisa remains an enigma as body parts prove inconclusive
September 24, 2015

ROME (Reuters) - Italian researchers said on Thursday they might have found bone fragments belonging to the woman immortalised by Leonardo da Vinci in his acclaimed "Mona Lisa" portrait.

However, the limits of current technology made it impossible to say for certain whether they had discovered the remains of Lisa Gherardini, who is thought to have sat for Leonardo and who was the wife of Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo.

The "Mona Lisa", known in Italian as the "Gioconda", hangs in Paris's Louvre museum and is possibly the most famous painting in the world, depicting a young woman with an enigmatic smile, her hands gently folded on her lap.

Although the identity of the woman is not certain, many historians believe it was probably Gherardini and archaeologists started looking for her body three years ago in a convent where she spent her final days. Additionally they opened the Giocondo family tomb in a Florence church seeking to make a DNA match.

A number of bodies were uncovered, but carbon dating found that only a group of bone fragments came from the early 16th century when Gherardini lived and the Mona Lisa was painted.

Silvano Vinceti, who heads Italy's National Committee for the Promotion of Historic and Cultural Heritage, said documentation about the burial site and the scientific testing made him confident they had unearthed Gherardini.

"If you were to ask me what I personally, subjectively, think and feel, I'd say I believe that we have found her," he told reporters.

Other experts were much more cautious, saying that given the poor state of the fragments, it was impossible to be sure.

Giorgio Gruppioni, professor of anthropology at the University of Bologna, said that based purely on scientific evidence, the chances they had found Mona Lisa was "certainly not high".

"What we hope is sophisticated techniques will eventually allow us to extract and analyse and compare the DNA to be able to ascertain that genetically these are the remains of Lisa Gherardini," he told reporters.

Despite his upbeat tone, the findings revealed on Thursday were less dramatic than those Vinceti had hoped for when he set out on his quest.

Two years ago, he told reporters that he hoped he would find Gherardini's skull and use that to reconstruct her face to compare it with the Leonardo painting.

In the end, no skull was recovered.

However, he said he was happy with what had been achieved.

"I have done my best because I believe in this and the results for me are most satisfying," Vinceti said.

(Reporting by Matteo Berlenga and Hanna Rantala; Writing by Crispian Balmer; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
-Reuters

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 25, 2015 at 7:01am: A Science Illustrator's Legacy
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/a-science-illustrato...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 25, 2015 at 6:13am: An event that connects art and science is coming to Trinity Western University (TWU) next month.

The 10th annual Verge Conference, hosted by TWU’s School of the Arts, Media + Culture, is taking place Oct. 1 and 2.

The conference brings together visual artists, performing artists, poets and scientists who are passionate about a wide range of environmental issues.

Topics include how the arts and environmental science methodologies are complementary or compatible, how science-based research and arts-based research strengthen each other and how environmental scientists and artists share ethical responsibilities.
http://www.langleytimes.com/entertainment/328718031.html

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 25, 2015 at 6:12am: Gorgeous Nerdy Science Art

Megan Lee’s scientist art. It’s the perfect mixture of simplicity, unity, and graphics, all with science history as the underlying theme. Most of the scientists she has profiled in art are at least somewhat known if not very well known.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/238250615/50-science-flashcards-rock-star