• Question: Does art and science have anything to do with each other?

    Asked by anon-224936 to Simon, Selen, Paul, Nawapat, Natalie, Katy on 16 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Paul Laurance-Young

      Paul Laurance-Young answered on 16 Nov 2019:

      Oh yes! Google ‘Leonardo Da Vinci’, a Renaissance era scientist and artist to see some amazing pictures!
      Doing science well is very much an art, it takes practice! In my daily job I work with a lot of stains and dyes: the colours I use to show different types of tissue have been selected simply because they look pretty and I can chop and change depending on what colour I want to use!

    • Photo: Nawapat Kaweeyanun

      Nawapat Kaweeyanun answered on 17 Nov 2019:

      Absolutely. Do you know that the department I am working in has an artist-in-residence? Scientists are good at research but we are often bad at telling everyone our works. Graphs and equations are not exactly easy on the eyes! This is where artists come in. Say you see an image of a newly discovered faraway galaxy, the picture is often an “artist depiction”. This means that the image is drawn by an artist from the telescope’s data. It is not what scientists actually see, but it’s what we should if the telescope is actually a camera. So without artists, we would have no pretty pictures for everyone to see!

    • Photo: Natalie Fowler

      Natalie Fowler answered on 18 Nov 2019:

      I always thought that I was terrible at art and good at science but recently I’ve learnt that they are definitely linked. I went on a course recently to do with innovation (making new ideas) and actually scientists are great at thinking and problem solving and this is a form of being creative!!! I still can’t draw or paint very well but I can play with ideas and form new connections which is all an art skill.

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