Hi - I really enjoyed reading what everyone has said so far and agree. Personally, I have found that studying botanical illustration - everything from capturing shapes of leaves with graphite pencil, using negative space, trying to understand color and duplicate color, the use of perspective, composition, etc., etc. has helped me improve my scientific understanding of the plants I study and how they function as part of a larger ecosystem. Carol
I totally agree. I think science and art are intertwined. My background is engineering but I have always loved art (and plants). There is a lot of overlap with the golden ratio and fractals seen in nature but is that science? :) I have so much to learn!
HI Guys, I love this topic! There are whole courses on the geometry of nature and on sacred geometry! Ernst Haeckel's work on art forms in nature. I have a lot more respect for his art than his science, though, which seemed to have an agenda!
I found this photo online, which really sums it up pretty well! Both trying to understand how the universe works.
I found this photo online, which really sums it up pretty well! Both trying to understand how the universe works.
One of the strong commonalities that art and science share is that, by closely observing something, one can begin to know it better. There is a sense of discovery, even a spiritual dimension in this 'knowing' for me. A question I have is, what are the elements of art that make it universally appealing? Is it that there is some inherent thing that humans share based, an innate sense of structure and form from nature? Sonja mentions sacred geometry, and other ways of framing what we see, the golden mean, chirality. The idea that some of these frameworks work both on the physical and musical planes really points out to some universal principals of composition coming together. Very good topic!!