Today I will write about the correlations between science and art. The fact is that both mentioned above disciplines were going forward inseparable, step by step, throughout the ages.
Both science and art often have the same common goal: to find the meaning of life. Also, they aim to see common points uniting us, humans, and the Earth together with the cosmos. Indeed, there are a lot of links between science and art. I will provide you, my Dear Friend, with only a few examples:
a) Hubble telescope
This magnificent telescope made for us tonnes of breathtaking photographs. Those fantastic pictures seemed to look like abstract paintings of the highest level. Nevertheless, they are not an abstraction. They are showing us spectacularly astronomical facts.
b) Camera obscura
It is broadly believed (e.g., David Hockney is one of the keenest admirers of the theory) that all the paintings of Venice and Warsaw, performed by Canaletto, were made thanks to mentioned earlier invention. Camera obscura is a natural optical phenomenon. What’s the point of this invention? This optical phenomenon occurs when an image of a scene on the other side of a wall is projected through a small hole in that tube as a reversed and inverted picture (upside down and left to right) on a surface opposite the opening. The surroundings of the projected image have to be dark for the vision to be precise. Thus, people performed many historical camera obscura experiments in dark rooms.
c) Eadweard Muybridge photographic activity.
His photos of horses immortalized movement and dynamism in a way unknown to anyone in the 19th century. Muybridge pioneered the visual studies of animal and human physical activity.
d) Leonardo da Vinci’s artistic activity.
Da Vinci is one of those who combined science and art at an unprecedented level that is virtually inaccessible to each of us. Da Vinci acted for the sake of science and art, so de facto, he inspired and taught the whole of humanity, including both scientists and artists.
e) In general, broadly understood photography is closely related to science.
That’s enough for today, my Dear Friend. What other connections between science and art would you provide to me?
