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Entrance This week I was able to visit the UCLA Meteorite Gallery. I think that it is so cool that UCLA provides access to experiences such as this one because students able to see and learn many things at their leisure. Here at the Meteorite Gallery they have on exhibit different meteorites of all sizes, nothing too big, that landed in different places around the United States and even other places around the world. Each meteorite display shares the materials that it is made up of and its weight. Around the room, inclosed in glass cases, are extraterrestrial basalts, rocks, and little pieces of other meteorites. Extraterrestrial rocks When I think about how this gallery connects art and science I think about how something that can be considered strictly science, such as aspects of space, are still put on display for aesthetic purposes. Here I was viewing meteorites just as I would view a painting or a sculpture. I also took note that these meteorites almost looked like sc

Growing up being a competitive gymnast I have had my fair share of X-rays and MRI’s. While I am very familiar with both of these medical technologies, I have never thought of them as relating to art until now. In the Lecture video, “Human Bodies and Medical Technologies: Part 2,” I learned that x-rays, photography, and film are all influenced by one another. xrayphotogfeat.jpg An x-ray captures images within the body, and while this may seem very scientific and technological, it is actually very similar to how a photograph can capture anything outside of the human body. This is just one example of how art and medicine are connected but it gives really great insight on how things that seem so different can actually be very similar. Another way in which art relies on medicine is that representations of the human body in art call for a sufficient understanding and knowledge of anatomy. Knowing how bones look and form the body is very beneficial in accurately representing the hu

While machines and robots seem like polar opposites from anything related to art, they are actually connected to one another in many aspects. The way in which people design and create is a necessary tool in the making of certain machines and was necessary for the start of industrialization to occur. One movie that I think of when it comes to the idea of machines and art overlapping, which was referenced in the the lecture video, “Industrialization, Robotics, Kinetic/Robotic Art,” is the movie Frankenstein. 260px-Frankenstein's_monster_(Boris_Karloff).jpg Here is an example of a machine or robot that has human characteristics and where a scientist combines scientific strategies with philosophical ideals.  Industrialization was a very significant time period throughout history, especially in America. While there was so much focus on the development of new technologies that were changing the world, these scientists and engineers were interconnecting art and philosophies into the

While I have always known that math is incorporated into art to some extent, through the material this week I have learned that math actually has a great influence on art and has been one of the main reasons as to why art has been able to advance so much through history, up until today. PentaTori.png In the lecture video titled “Math, Perspective, Time, and Space,” it showed that many famous artists and art pieces were created using mathematics to make the artwork more aesthetically pleasing. For example, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was painted using the golden ratio. In this painting, the ratio of the smaller rectangle to the larger rectangle is equal to the ratio of the larger rectangle to the whole. This image really helped explain how very well known and successful artists would use math make their art even more astounding. ec0daeeca724a8cd24b6c43c2a2cf12c.jpg Also, in the novel, Flatland , by Edwin Abbott Abbott, it describes the concept of lines based off perspective

All throughout my education I have always been taught that science is seperate from art, that these two cultures are to be taught as two completely different subjects. Not only were science and art taught separately, but there was a significant difference of importance between these two subjects. art-and-science.jpg Science was always treated as being more important than art . Growing up and trying to find my path in life, I feel like I have to choose between an art route and a science route. Now, as an undergraduate at UCLA, this mental conflict is still occuring as I am trying to find a major. Although I have always loved all aspects of art, I did not think that I would be able to pursue art as a career because it was taught to me as a subject that was much lower in significance compared to a subject like science. Just as CP Snow states in his book "The Two Culture and the Scientific Revolution," that scientist and artist rarely interacted, this phenomenon is still

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