My name is Emma Degerstedt and I am finishing my degree online this summer. I had the opportunity to leave school early this past spring to play Ariel in The Little Mermaid the Musical. In the four years I spent as a musical theatre major at UCLA, I only took one class on south campus. The separation of science and the arts is not only through the geological placement but also because of the time availability and opportunity to take certain classes. I had almost finished my third year of college before I discovered the beautiful Botanical Garden in south campus, which I never knew existed.
In 2012 my mother and I visited Murano, Italy to see how this form of glass art is created, and saw how this form of art required scientific knowledge. Below is a video of the glass making island in Murano, Italy
Attached below is a photo of me with the bowl I watched the artists make at Murano island in Italy!
All three authors, of the articles we read, agreed that art and technology should be interconnected. The best example of a man who’s artistic characteristics assisted him in science, is Albert Einstein. By using the recognizable scientist, Bohm articulates the correlation between science and creativity in a way that the general population can all understand. I love the idea that there were probably more intelligent scientists than Einstein, but they lacked the unique creativity that Einstein possessed and utilized.
Until I read Bohm's article on creativity, I had generally never associated the word "beauty" with the word "science". The quote that left the lasting impression on me was that the scientist "wishes to find in the reality in which he lives a certain oneness and totality, or wholeness, constituing a kind of harmony that is felt to be beautiful" (Bohm 3).
REFERENCES
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Bohm, David. On Creativity. Leonardo, Vol. 1, No. 2. (Apr., 1968), pp. 137-149.
C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, 1959).
Wilson, Stephen . "Myths and Confusions in Thinking about Art/Science/Technology." : n. pag. Print.http://www.errc.ucla.edu/MMathias%20Bot%20Gardens.JPG
http://youtu.be/n7KRrYD26nQ?t=10m41s
http://www.esl-bits.net/listening/Media/2012-11-25/Albert_Einstein/index.html
Hi Emma,
ReplyDeleteI liked your point and example using Albert Einstein as someone who effectively establishes "correlation between science and creativity in a way that the general population can all understand". I definitely believe that both art and science are seeking to articulate and express the human experience and the emotions associated with it. The two fields are using far different languages (i.e. your art example of glassblowing vs. the language of numbers in math) but at their core they are both seeking understanding of the world that surrounds us, which is awesome!