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Art and science are typically seen as being two very separate disciplines. Art seeks to express truth via creativity. Science seeks to find the truth using hard research. And there’s that word: truth. Both are looking for the truth; they’re just searching for it in different ways.
Each respective form serves humanity in different ways, according to Cosmos Magazine. Science seeks to make our lives more ordered and easier. We can all thank science for vaccines, microwaves and electricity—things we depend on just about every day, whether or not we realize it. Whereas art serves an equally important purpose: it nourishes our souls. We cherish our favorite books, music and images for life. A book can stay with you for years—its sentences echoing inside your head long after you’ve closed the page. An album can become your soundtrack to a summer. Maybe you’re listening to music right now. Maybe you’re planning on going to the movies this weekend. Regardless of how you’re using it, you probably “use” art in your life every day, just like you use science in your life every day.
And both art forms are more intertwined than you might think. For example, you’ll probably never see a black hole, but an artist can make you feel like you did. You’ll also never see any dinosaurs with your own eyes—since they all died out long ago—but artists made you feel like you were right beside them in Jurassic Park.
According to another article published in the Cosmos magazine, many writers who pen articles for scientific magazines will often have arts backgrounds. A good essay involves creating a hypothesis and then structuring the rest of it to support that idea. In fact, Francis Bacon—the father of the scientific method—is also the one who created the English Essay.
But like anything, science and art tend to get a bit “messy.” Scientific truths are rarely absolute, and neither are art truths. Just give it a few years and a new discovery will make a fact untrue or expand upon it, while art periods change as often as the generations. Just like truth is constantly debated in art (if you doubt this, read episode recaps of “artistic” shows like Mad Men or The Game of Thrones from multiple publications to see just how different writers will argue over what the shows’ creators are really trying to say), truth is also debated in science. It’s rarely clear-cut and oftentimes involves many hours of complex and trying research just to figure it out—much like creating an artistic masterpiece. If you’ve got in your head that science and art are two vastly different subjects—after all, they were different classes in school—think a little harder.
There are also artists who borrow from science. We shared the stunning Bathsheba Sculpture, a sculpture studio in Massachusetts, whose artistic designs come exclusively from math and science. Further, artists througout history have used scientific concepts in their art or to improve their art, which is obvious when looking at art works throughout time. Art architects use science and math to create structurally sound buildings that are also beautiful works of art.
Even Navis Pack & Ship uses a combination of art and science in our art shipping methods. While we meticulously measure and record items to be shipped and calculate the best shipping method based on customer needs and the item's fragility, building unique crates for each item is a work of art. This combination is one of the reasons we're the best in the shipping industry! Learn more about the unique works we've shipped, and contact us for your most delicate of shipping needs.
