ART+SCIENCE 2019

While in school we are constantly told that there is beauty in everything and I have always wondered if this is actually true. Since beauty is subjective, it is possible for there to be beauty found in most things. Majority of people associate beauty with nature which then has its obvious ties to science. People are drawn to recurring patterns in nature such as patterns on leaves, the stars in the sky, and the ridges on shells. One of the most beautiful things found within the realm of science are the planets themselves. The one that I personally have always been drawn to is Saturn. Saturn’s rings have this glow that almost has a hypnotizing effect on the viewer when looking at it, even just in pictures.  Part of the beauty of Saturn’s rings is the mystery behind them. It is known that the rings are made up of ice and water. NASA’s Voyager 2 was targeted around Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. There are color enhanced photos taken from Voyager 2 of Saturn’s rings that a...

Beauty in Science: The Color blue Colors are important. They are so important that we have our favorite ones, we pick colors to surround ourselves in, and we only wear the colors that we like best. We convince our selves that colors mean incredibly specific things. Although it may sound obvious, the primary colors that make up our beautiful and vibrant world are red, yellow, and blue. Seeing as these three colors make up all the other colors that we know, it seems impossible to live in a world where one of these colors does not exist. However, this is precisely the case in our history. The color blue was the last of the colors to be identified. In the history of many languages, the color blue did not even exist. Some isolated tribes and communities today favor the color green to blue when it comes to color. Color is not something that can be discovered, so why was there a point when we didn't know what blue was? We do have an understanding of how our eyes work, which h...

From my perspective, nature and its beauty provokes scientific interest, especially in regards to biology and astronomy. Of course, people can find different things in nature beautiful or not due to subjectivity. For example, I may find the metallic, dark green exoskeleton of a beetle beautiful, but many people find the large bug terrifying. However, there are so many aspects of nature that people can find beautiful that I believe everyone can have their interests sparked by the world around us. Since everyone has access to some natural terrain, whether it is the forest, desert, or even a small patch of trees in a park in a city, I think nature makes science more available to people because of simple observation. For example, a curious person may notice a tree’s leaves changing from green to orange with the seasons, and want to learn more about the chemistry behind it. This initial observation could inspire them to open a textbook or go to a lab to learn about it. Based on wh...

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The word beauty is often associated with nature and the arts. Usually, when I think of science, beauty is not the first word that comes to mind. Instead, some other things I associate science with are space, biology, chemistry, and math. Items that have factual and have quantitative elements, while art is often qualitative and decorative. That said, I do believe that science is, in fact, beautiful. Although science does not emphasize on aesthetic aspects and tend to concentrate on theories and facts, both art and science intersect and help inform each other. Though the term beautiful might be different from a scientist’s perspective than from an artist’s and/or outsider’s perspective. For a scientist, they probably see the beauty in science when all the formula and facts work out perfective, giving them this perfect number or equation that can be solved and prove. While for an artist, they find beauty in science by examining findings from a lens. Not to say that either is wrong, b...

To expand upon the word “beauty”, beauty is the emotional cull towards an appealing object.  It objectifies as well as embodies everything that the individual believes and manifests itself into a visual aspect.  However, beauty can be arguable between communities, while what many may believe to be aesthetic, others may retort against the notion and deem it to be worthless in their eyes.  Hence the old proverb states, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. To further reinstate the essence of “beauty”, some may use the words “art” or “natural” as a means to place a definition on the open-ended term.  However the words, “art” and “natural” can be seen as two seperate beings. While one places emphasis on visual and metaphorical contexts, the other describes the scientific aspect on the law of nature.  While the definitions of art and nature are unable to accurately describe “beauty”, instead beauty defines them. Beauty can be seen in both the artistic and s...

Sammy Keane The comparing and contrasting of art and science is something we have been discussing since the first day of Lia Halloran’s college course, “Art and Science”. Personally, I think that science can absolutely be beautiful. It has been said that beauty is subjective to the eye of the viewer, however, the many comparisons and examples between science and art lead me to believe that science has just as much beauty as any art piece may have. When doing some research on my view of this topic I came across two great articles with examples that interested me. One of the articles, written by Unimed, has to do with the beauty of a human face, whereas, the other article, written by Forbes, discusses the beauty in nature. Both articles, however, combine the notion of beauty and nature influencing science.  In Unimed Living’s news article, “Science is Beauty”, Paul O’Hara starts by saying, “let’s delve a little into what beauty is, what it means and what makes somethin...