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Art And Science: Blurring The Poetic And The Analytical, Caitlin M. David
Art And Science: Blurring The Poetic And The Analytical, Caitlin M. David
Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Papers
Abstract: Despite a modern conception of art and science as being fundamentally opposed, both have at their core a desire to explain the inexplicable. Their investigations and the communication of the results of these investigations can be blurred at both poetic and analytical junctions. Vivified abstract thought, or the poetic, can be thought of as instigating the ubiquitous desire to explain the inexplicable. Fruitful analysis of resulting data and representation of that data must consider the idiom of both art and science if it is to successfully cross between them, and special emphasis must be placed on the diagram as …