The Third Culture: Artistic science and scientific art isismagazine.org.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from isismagazine.org.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Hide and Seek with the Brain isismagazine.org.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from isismagazine.org.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
How visual art gives us rich insights into how our brains work Updated / Friday, 29 Jan 2021 13:59 Album sheet with a rose, 1675 by Maria Merian. Photo: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images Opinion: just like listening to music, viewing works of art can have a profound effect on our mental health The arts are often portrayed as the polar opposite of the sciences. However, a closer inspection reveals a rich shared history in which the two approaches have, at different times, acted in a symbiotic manner. Drawings and paintings were the only way in which scientific observations could be conveyed to others during those historical epochs before mass reproduction of images was possible. Da Vinci s anatomical drawings or Galileo s watercolour sketches of the moon are two examples of this. Later, the painted illustrations by artists such as Maria Merian, Ellen Hutchins, Genevieve Jones and Beatrix Potter paved the way for the classification of a variety of flora, fauna and fungi.
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