“Art upsets, science reassures”

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"Art upsets, science reassures"

popular stereotypes frequently present the scientist and the artist as extreme opposites in their pursuit of understanding the scientist as being objective, disciplined and rational, and artist as being subjective, impulsive and imaginative. Braque described it very felicitously by saying: Art upsets, science reassures.

Yet, are they really so different in the ways they look at the world? To what extent do you consider these stereotypes accurate, and to what extent do you consider them distortions of the ways in which the sciences and the arts give us their knowledge?

Living in this world, we have many opportunities to appreciate both fields of science andart. This includes various activities like exhibitions or, in science, we are also notice its usefulness from the fact that many synthesized fibres are made into our clothes and so on. Further, we are clearly aware that within these fields there are experts; scientists and artists. In an effort to know what they both work on and what they are we have created stereotypes, which remain persistentlyon our mind and sometimes are extremely useful for us to categorize things . On the other hand, it could create