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RE: Art or Science? Why not both?@Singapore Art Science Museum艺术与科学不能并存？@新加坡艺术科学博物馆
Art and science have often worked together. This is what drove the Renaissance in Western Europe. There were people such as Da Vinci who were at the fore as both artist and scientist.
For example, he drew diagrams of the human body, its organs and muscles that were so accurately drawn, that they were up until only recently still used in many books of medical study.
@leoplaw, thanks for raising this important point. Yes, in this point, we could see they worked in many aspects, e.g. statue (in term of body ratio), architecture (especially graphics in catholic church), etc.. Maybe to be accurate, this museum is showing the combination between art and technology, as they are doing 3D projections, media, sounds effects...those stuffs.
Art and science will always have a partnership. The arts can inspire scientific research. And science can inspire art. We were creating images of travel to space and the moon long before it was achieved, because much scientific research had to be yet conducted. Then when it was finally achieved, the technology and the images from this have gone on to inspire even more creative ideas and new forms of art. For instance, digital art is a direct result of the space exploration. The technology developed for this gives us the very computers we work with today.
It is a very productive feedback loop. =)
As you said "The arts can inspire scientific research. And science can inspire art", I think of the idea that art is the practice (or say record) of human imagination. And also the art can reflect science, such as the feature of exaggerated lighting in Baroque painting creating the stage effects.
The science, to me, simply, a tool to help us live better and understand the mechanism of the world. But when it is combined with art, it gives meanings, as it's one of the functions of art, is to let audience reflect and think. That's also one important value of Art and Humanities.
Haha, so I agree that when art and science work together, it would create the best performance.
Put the two together and you get Spock! =)