Draw! by Gilang Danu
The vast developed world of today brought many changes we never dreamed before. Take a look at the latest news in science, seems like a sci-fi dreams come true, huh? How about the art? Just look at the CGI in latest Hollywood movie, it’ll pop your eyes out. And how does drawing drawing fit in here? Well, drawing still as it’s always been: a primitive activity that went against the mighty of time.
Drawing is timeless. From the ancient culture of the past, to today's meeting room: people still function their brain, reacting their hand to form a specific shape. That is drawing.
My earlier post said something about the communications advantage of drawing. Now, I’d like to write something about drawing again, from the perspectives of science and art.
May 9th, 2009, the New York Academy of Science held a symposium regarding the subject of Two Cultures—that is science vs art. The issue was first raised by C.P Snow’s novel some years ago, in which Snow questioned about the two separate branches of human life, the heartless and rigorous science VS the sociable yet subjective art. Where will drawing take side in this?
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
~Albert Einstein
I’ll say drawing take part in both art and science. What is it Da Vinci without the aid of Phytagoras’ equation? And how would Einstein discover relativity without consulting himself to pen and paper, sketching Cartesian diagram of physical dimension?
Art and science—really—they came from the very same mother, they're the brainchild of human's idea. The result of deep thinking and daydreaming, the outcome of the wildest imagination and untamed intuition. There’s no significant difference between art and science. I shit you not. Let’s say: what is it the difference between mathematical equation and a pencil lead?
They’re tools! Correct!
Mathematic symbol and a painting is merely a symbol for us to understand more about universe. To say that art is 'science-less' and science is 'art-less', IMSO is totally stupid. Even more stupid is the person who distinguish that scientist is 'scholarly smart' and artist is 'drop-out dumb', for intellectual life is both more and less integrated than just a brick wall between art and science.
"Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive”
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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