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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 November 19, 2014 at 7:31am: Multicultural individuals can be more creative

In one study, Professor Leung exposed European American undergraduates to one of these three conditions using a 45-minute multi-media slideshow: (i) single culture through presenting pictures of items that depicted either the American culture (e.g., the Statue of Liberty, a hamburger) or the Chinese culture (e.g., the Great Wall, hotpot dinner) on each slide; (ii) dual cultures through presenting pictures of items that depicted American culture and pictures that depicted Chinese culture on each slide; and (iii) fusion of cultures (e.g., a picture of Starbucks’ mid-Autumn festival mooncakes).

She found that participants demonstrated better creative performance when exposed to dual cultures and fusion of cultures, compared to those who were exposed to a single culture. Their creative performance persisted five to seven days after initial exposure. Because they are more open and receptive to new experiences.
Enhancing Creativity through Multiculturalism
https://research.smu.edu.sg/news/smuresearch/2014/11/11/enhancing-c...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on November 18, 2014 at 9:07am: Art meets science in solar-powered LED jewelry

Brother-sister duo Marty and Robin Lawson have teamed up under the name Lumen Electronic Jewelry, using their passion for science to create pieces of jewelry that literally “dazzle.”

The engineers make jewelry with little twinkling LED lights that are powered by tiny solar panels incorporated in the design, all on a circuit board.
http://badgerherald.com/news/2014/11/17/art-meets-science-in-solar-...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on November 18, 2014 at 9:02am: Sci-art in Africa:
The arrivals and departures of summer migrants, such as Swallow, House Martin and Cuckoo, hint at the changing seasons and deliver a sense of connection with distant lands. In January 2014, a team of four SWLA artists accompanied the British Trust of Ornithology’s Head of International Research on a trip to Senegal. By bringing artists and scientists together we set out to raise the profile around some of the issues facing our African migrants.
Where art and science meet

Bringing together artists and scientists delivers different perspectives on the same scene. Both artist and scientist question what they see and engage fully with the landscape and birds around them, yet they look with different eyes. The trip was a learning experience for all those involved.
http://parwich.org/2014/11/15/artists-to-africa/

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on November 18, 2014 at 8:39am: Meet the ancestors: French exhibit reveals prehistoric faces: a combination of science and art
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/16/world/science-health-wo...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on November 18, 2014 at 8:35am: Inspired by growing interest in the convergence of art, science and technology, the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum in partnership with Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology will host its fourth ATX LASER (Austin – Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) event on November 18, 7:00- 9:30 PM. The series is free and open to the public.

ATX LASER is a salon series that encourages dialogue between diverse perspectives on innovation within the art and science communities both locally and internationally.
http://www.austinmonthly.com/AM/Calendar/index.php/name/ATX-LASER-A...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on November 18, 2014 at 8:34am: U.K.-based Robert D. Eagling inhabits two worlds with great ease — as editor at the prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry where he edits top chemical journals such as Chemical Science, Chemical Communications and Chem Soc Rev. And the other as a serious balloon artist at children's birthday parties, stag and hen parties, weddings, and corporate events. "I've been doing this for a little over three years now. While on holiday with my family, I saw a guy doing this and fancied having a go," says Eagling, on a visit to Bangalore's Indian Institute of Science campus.
http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/robert-eagling-balloons/...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on November 18, 2014 at 8:20am: Musician uses science to help you see sound

A series of sound-visualisation experiments form the basis of the music video for a new single by musician Nigel Stanford
There are actually a number of scientific experiments that can be used to produce a practical visual effect in response to sound. Six of these have been used by Wellington, New Zealand-based musician Nigel Stanford, who, along with director Shahir Daud, has put them together to form the music video for "Cymatics", the single for his newly launched album "Solar Echoes".
The video for "Cymatics" -- named for the study of visible sound -- represents each audio track with a different visualisation. And, rather than creating the visualisations as a response to the track, it was these visualisations that formed the basis for the track's composition.

The secondary keyboard track uses a Chladni plate, a thin metal plate that vibrates when sound waves run through it, causing looping, undulating patterns to form in sand sprinkled over the surface. Stanford experimented with the keyboard, and chose the four notes he thought produced the best patterns, holding them long enough for the patterns to form -- a slow melodic motif.
http://www.cnet.com/news/musician-uses-science-to-help-you-see-sound/

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on November 15, 2014 at 8:40am: Celebrating art and science:
It’s art and science and it’s a celebration of how they marriage each other in most situations. Artists are always using science and the best scientists, the innovative scientists are artists as part of the creative process. So, it’s a celebration of that.
http://www.theadvertiser.com/story/entertainment/events/2014/11/13/...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on November 15, 2014 at 8:32am: Prof. Arnold Wolfendale, a distinguished UK scientist in cosmic ray physics and astronomy who is also Emeritus Professor of Physics at Durham University in UK enthralled the audience at a public lecture at Anna Stadium here organized by the Cosmic Ray Laboratory (CRL). He said that art and science are intertwined. Art influences science and science influences art.
Dwelling in length to explain to the budding minds the importance and co-existence of art and science, Sir Wolfendale pointed to the origin of the earth, nature and scientific developments over time, and said that the universe, the solar system, the planets, the earth and nature in and around earth are in fact nature's own form of art from where modern man drew ideas and inspirations for discoveries and inventions. Sir Wolfendale said that understanding the planet earth where nature's law like gravitational forces, rotation of the earth, seasons, measurement of distances between various planets and cosmic objects, invisible radiation and other related things helped man to venture into space.

He could, from space, now bring benefits to earth and use that knowledge to further explore space."An example of the influence of art on science is the role of artistic models in physics and chemistry. In turn, science has influenced art and continues to do so in such areas as the provision of new pigments and the introduction of exciting ideas from cosmology," he said. He explained how men in ancient times invented clocks by mere observation of the cosmic world and upgraded their skills in measuring the distances of cosmic objects.

Be it the understanding of the designing of the DNA molecule which paved the way for the revolution in bio-technology, agriculture and medical research, invention of the optical system that is helpful in science and in improving photography and designing atoms and molecules and all other technological inventions, all were connected with art which is the other side of the science, he noted.

Insisting that fundamental research is essential to provide baseline data for advanced research and applied sciences, he stressed that understanding art would add fuel to propel towards scientific inventions.Dr S.K.Gupta, Head of the CRL in Ooty said that these kind of sessions would help encourage students understand the fascination of art and science, pursue scientific research with more interest and look for innovation and inventions.
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/141114/nation-current-affairs/articl...