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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 August 17, 2015 at 8:27am: How art and science work together...

If you are wondering how art and science work hand in hand, then you might want to see the newest exhibit at the Houston Community College (HCC) West Loop Campus Gallery. Artist Natasha Hovey creates sleek, contemporary sculptures based on her exploration of human physiology and her own genetic makeup. Questions about her health inspired Hovey to create her latest installment of ceramic work called “One of Two or More.”

She gathered all of her medical records and tests and compiled them into booklet and dissected the medical records and translated that into a visual story.

You will have a chance to meet Hovey and hear the stories behind her pieces during an artist reception at the West Loop Campus Gallery from 6-8 p.m., Tuesday, September 8. The exhibit runs from now until September 10 and is free and open to the public, Monday-Saturday. For information on the Fine Arts programs offered at HCC, visit hccs.edu/programs.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on August 17, 2015 at 8:22am: Why you are not good at adapting one language but find another one learning a comparatively easy task? Blame your brain as it always opts for an easy route, say scientists.

The grammar of languages keeps reorganising itself.

A prime example of this is the omission of case endings in the transition from Latin to Italian.

In some instances, case systems are remodelled entirely - such as in the transition from Sanskrit to Hindi which has completely new grammatical cases.

After conducting statistical analyses of the case systems in more than 600 languages and recording the changes over time, an international team of researchers found that the brain activity is stronger for complex case constructions than for simple ones.

"Certain case constructions tax the brain more, which is why they are eventually omitted from languages all over the world - independently of the structural properties of the languages or socio-historical factors," explained Balthasar Bickel, professor of general linguistics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

In other words, biological processes are instrumental in grammatical changes.

For the study, the team tested the adaptations in participants, measuring the brain flows that become active during language comprehension.

The team finally demonstrated that brain looks for easy-to-comprehend case constructions.

"Our findings pave the way for further studies on the origin and development of human language and a better understanding of speech disorders," Bickel added in a paper published in the journal PLOS ONE.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on August 15, 2015 at 8:28am: When art and science collide

A Toowoomba artist says art has a valuable part to play in helping understand scientific concepts.
The Art meets Science exhibition is on display at the Ecosciences Precinct at Boggo Road in Brisbane until August 29
http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2015/08/13/4292550.htm

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on August 15, 2015 at 8:25am: Art-science collaboration is helping people explore some of life’s most challenging questions.
What science and the arts can teach each other
Drawing on skills and exercises developed by scientists exploring complex systems – such as a large river valley where the needs and actions of farmers upstream may be at odds with the needs of eco-tourism operators further downstream – Boho Interactive ensure that people can learn about the universe through the playful application of scientific techniques.
Artists bring a kind of communication skill – that’s one thing that artists have that scientists don’t, but they bring a kind of rigour. And for artists that’s really exciting.
‘Science has a tool kit for understanding some of these big challenges, as I said before, but scientists aren’t trained communicators. They’ve got a very different set of skills. And in fact, as has become very evident in the last 25 years with the climate debate, the very practice of science as being open-minded and acknowledging uncertainty and so on has been really exploited by special interest groups. And scientists, with their prerogative of being fair and equal and so on, that kind of trips them up in the media-scape.

'So artists can kind of fill in some of the gaps, and can be as deceitful and manipulative as anyone, and use that on behalf of some of those scientists who maybe can’t advocate for themselves in the same way.
When you would have a physics lab or physicists working with a dancer or visual artist or another scientist [from a different field] working on a particular problem or issue for society; and just the ability to look at things through a different lens would be – and is – really helpful’.
http://www.artshub.com.au/festival/news-article/features/festivals/...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on August 13, 2015 at 9:09am: Carnegie Museum of Natural History illustrator turns science into art
Mr. Klingler has served as scientific artist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History with a long list of credentials and accomplishments, along with the attitude that “I just do art and have fun doing it.”

Through Sept. 6, 48 pieces of Mr. Klingler’s artwork on exhibit at Thomas Ridge Environmental Center, Presque Isle, Erie. They display his diverse artistic skills emboldened by scientific accuracy that, combined, capture the beauty, grace and personality of animals in their natural habitats, then and now.
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/science/2015/08/11/Mark-Klingler-t...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on August 13, 2015 at 9:07am: Particle Physics and art:
http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/review-particle-physics-by-katrina...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on August 13, 2015 at 9:00am: Simple Machines: Science & Art Integration (Video)
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/inspired_instruction/2015/08/simpl...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on August 13, 2015 at 8:46am: Science plus art is equal to change according to ... Krakauer—whose research background is in the evolution of information processing mechanisms in genetic, neural, linguistic and cultural systems -
Commingle mathematicians and visual artists long enough and you might see a commonality emerge: While so many other professionals do most of their work on a computer screen, these two continue to work primarily with their hands. While that common impetus is interesting, what’s more compelling—and increasingly necessary—is what happens when you create a hive of activity that allows those two sources of input to simultaneously chip away at the world’s major problems, says David Krakauer, who recently took over as president of the Santa Fe Institute. Problems like those of economic disparity, renewable energy and education inequality need solutions that come from more than one discipline; if the idea of the lone genius is gone in an increasingly collaborative approach to science, the idea of science working in isolation is becoming equally outdated.
New Santa Fe Institute president says fixing the world’s problems starts with a commingling of fields .
http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-10779-art-+-science-=-cha...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on August 12, 2015 at 6:45am: GroundWorks: Improving and Supporting Practice in the Third Space

The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) has issued a call for proposals for Third Space Transdisciplinary Exemplars (e.g., at the intersections of Science, Engineering, Arts and Design—SEAD) that integrate arts and/or design practices with work and research across other disciplines. These exemplars will be explored during a conference on November 8-12 at Virginia Tech as part of an ongoing conversation centered on developing and testing new peer review standards that could be applied in the transdisciplinary “third space”.

NEA Research Grants

The NEA’s Office of Research and Analysis is inviting applications to support research that investigates the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecology or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life. Matching grants range from $10,000 to $30,000. The grant program description references how some of the most compelling research about the arts has originated in non-arts specialties and that the NEA encourages applications from diverse research fields (e.g., psychology, education, economics, sociology, medicine and health, communications, and urban and regional planning) in addition to projects that address a diverse array of topics concerning the value and/or impact of the arts. –

Deadline: October 20, 2015
Notification: April 2016
Earliest Start Date: May 1, 2016
Office of Program Innovation

National Endowment for the Arts

1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Suite 628

Washington, DC 20506

202 682 5505

artandscience@arts.gov

www.arts.gov

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on August 12, 2015 at 6:42am: “How Creativity Works in the Brain”.

The NEA’s executive report detailing findings from a working group the agency co-convened with the Santa Fe Institute is now available online. The convening brought together thought-leaders from psychology, neurobiology, neuro-technology, education and the arts to conduct a transdisciplinary investigation into the nature of creativity in the brain. These experts from across art and science were assembled in the hopes of gaining a new and broader understanding of how creativity functions in the brain and across these various domains and to seek new understanding of how creativity can be nurtured, optimized, and deployed.

The research would also look at the issue of internal rewards, including "How do aesthetic processes during arts creation link to the pleasure centers of the dopamine-driven midbrain system?"

The second research objective is to "submit behavioral assessments of creativity to neurobiological testing to validate them further, for the purpose of encouraging their widespread use by educators and employers." Findings backed up by hard data will be easier for people to accept, making them more likely to be implemented.

"The arts and sciences, technological progress, economic prosperity—nearly every significant advance achieved by entire societies—are driven by human creativity," O'Brien writes in the report's preface. "Yet somehow our understanding of how creativity should be defined, nurtured, and optimized remains surprisingly elusive."

Perhaps the fastest and most effective way to change this, he adds, "will be via an all-hands-on deck approach that synthesizes and activates insights across arts, sciences, and the humanities."

http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/creativity-and-the-brain-w...