The idea of beauty thanks to nature is not something new. Since Socrates we have a record that the beautiful was what imitated nature. A shoe in itself is not beautiful, however it is a human creation, on the other hand, the painting of a landscape is beautiful because of the search for that natural reality.
The idea of art and nature has been around for a long time, however, since the Renaissance, a time when the canons of ancient Greece were revived, science came into contact with the two subjects mentioned above. Art, science and nature, a triad that seems to reach perfection.
Perhaps now it is difficult to imagine, but when da Vinci painted the “Vitruvian Man” according to facts and not according to aesthetic canons, he did something that was already considered beautiful even further. We can all appreciate the beauty of Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus”, but the strange proportion of the body of the mythical Venus cannot be denied.
The criteria of beauty have become something much more subjective, but that is why when art, science and nature come together, the result ends up being a visual spectacle close to perfection. It is enough to remember the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” in which, thanks to previous studies, it does not matter that man did not set foot on the moon until a year after its release, it almost perfectly portrays the way in which objects they move in space.
It is art, it is science and it is nature. Kubrick and his team worked hard to almost perfectly depict life in space and by investing in both the execution and the research, no matter how many years and how many movies about space have been made, that one continues to be my favourite. movie buffs and scientists.
There are even scientists who have spoken about art due to the similarity it has with their field of study. Johanna Kieniewicz has a Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Science and found that despite her passion, the intellectual drain was too much if she didn’t use creativity. After years of work she took a break and went back to school to study art. Thanks to that, her work is much more efficient and allows her to see different points that she would not have imagined before.
Scientists like Kieniewicz or artists like Sterlac, who grew an ear on his arm with the help of genetics and highly advanced technology, are proof that you can go much further by working hand in hand, although not everyone agrees. if it’s okay for art to mess with genes. The future may continue in painting, however the study of art together with science and nature will always be at the forefront.