Relationship Between Science And Art

Any discussion on the relationship between science and sensory art is inevitably conditioned by the specific meanings and associations that each term has come to acquire. During earlier periods in which ‘science’ meant a systematic body of knowledge constructed on rational principles, and ‘art’ referred to an activity requiring the steady acquisition of skill, the fields of science and art were not automatically regarded as the polar opposites that they have tended to become in the modern classifications of intellectual disciplines(M. Pollock). The term ‘science’ refers to the systematic investigation of natural, celestial and mathematical processes. There is substantial evidence to suggest that common techniques of illusion, most notably perspective, do correspond in a non-arbitrary way to fundamental processes in human perception, but this correspondence cannot be taken to mean that illusionistic representation has a higher value than other forms of art that respond to different functions and needs. There are four main ways of approaching the relation of science and art, three primarily historical, the fourth pertaining more to philosophy, aesthetics and psychology. These …show more content…
The classic model is used to examine the ideas of an artist or group of artists to see how scientific knowledge was adopted or adapted for the purpose of making works of art. The most firmly established area for this kind of research is the phase of naturalism in European art from the Renaissance to the 19th century, during which the aims of empirical science were widely seen as providing a foundation for artists’ understanding of the appearance and representation of nature. Investigators in this field must also be alert to the possibility that science can be used, or even abused, in a retrospective and opportunistic manner to justify techniques that actually had no direct basis in scientific