The art that accompanies this special issue on the intersections of scientific language and humanistic thought features the paintings, drawings, and computer-generated art of a biochemist who never ...stopped making art, even if his original plan to study painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna soon shifted to the study of medicine. ...of his death in 1991, a few days after suffering a stroke, he was planning a leave of absence from his lab at Cornell to do an artist's residency at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, California (a residency founded by a fellow scientist, the chemist Carl Djerassi).
Science in Surrealism Talasek, JD
Issues in science and technology,
06/2015, Letnik:
31, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Artwork is never created in a vacuum. Artists are influenced by their surroundings, and their work often reflects their impressions of the seminal ideas, debates, and discussions of their time. ...Throughout the 20th century, innovative advances and ideas in science rippled through the humanities, philosophy, and of course the artists' studios. In this spirit, the exhibit Science in Surrealism uses Gavin Parkinson's book Surrealism, Art and Modern Science as a guide to explore the exchange of ideas between scientists and Surrealists of the early 20th century. Investigation of "the new physics," as it was referred to at the time, was led by scientists such as Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, and Max Planck. Its impact is reflected throughout the work of many Surrealist artists and writers in abstracted yet definitive ways.
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During the past decade, analyses of artistic creativity have demonstrated the contrast in creative life cycles between experimental old masters and conceptual young geniuses. This article extends the ...analysis to scientists. Charles Darwin was a great experimental innovator, who spent decades accumulating evidence on evolution and its mechanisms, and made his greatest contributions late in his career. In contrast, Albert Einstein was a great conceptual innovator, who made discoveries through highly abstract reasoning, and made his greatest contributions early in his career. The careers of these two great scientists are thus consistent with the thesis that, as in the arts, conceptual creativity is associated with youth, but experimental creativity increases with age.
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