Comments on: Art, Meet Science

By: Maria Odete Madeira

Maria Odete Madeira — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:50:15 +0000

Hmmm…, that late-period Jackson Pollock is very rupestral…

Ars, artis (Lat.), particularly significative is the Latin adjective artus (narrow, that which is fit) which incorporates an idea of proportion, well fit.

The same root is present in the Greek ararisko, with the meaning of: to harmonize in accordance to the ends. In Greek, however, there is another term, perhaps much more fit to the sense of art: techne, used to signalize the ability in the doing in accordance with an eidos of excellence.

Maybe it is not such a bad idea for art to give a hand to science… (sorry )

By: GR

GR — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 08:29:26 +0000

Here’s a dark matter graph, obviously real since it even appeared on a colloquium flyer:

http://www.physics.wisc.edu/twap/posters/2009/1581.pdf

By: Timon of Athens

Timon of Athens — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:14:18 +0000

“Would it be weird to frame that picture and put it on the wall?”

Not at all. That would go well beyond the merely weird.

By: miko

miko — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:41:04 +0000

That integration-by-parts line was great. Would it be weird to frame that picture and put it on the wall?

By: daisyrose

daisyrose — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:48:49 +0000

Everyone can draw ! When drawing from life it is easy to tell right away how well you succeeded e.g. what you saw -patterns, visual sensations … and how well you put it down, if you have anything to say, and if there is any pleasure in looking at it.