International Art Dealer Sunil Vilas exclusive interview’s Dr Krishna Kumari Challa – Indian artist
Here to cover the question of creative dualism, I am proud to welcome our next guest to our VIP Creative Lounge moving across to the continent of Asia and to India, Scientist, Writer Poet and Artist Dr Krishna Kumari Challa.
She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in India since 2008, “Cosmic Show of Science” group showed around India in 2009; a group show in Copenhagen (Denmark) in 2010; Izmir Biennial in May 2011 (Turkey); Italy in 2011. Exhibited at the first International science-art conference in Moscow in 2012.
ART AND SCIENCE UNITED BY ONE IMPULSE AND ONE LOGIC
In introducing our next guest, we remind ourselves of the Great maestro Leonardo DA VINCI who also had his interest in two fields—the artistic and the scientific which developed and shaped his future work, building towards a kind of creative dualism that sparked his inventiveness in both fields. One of his great contributions was the start of the Scientific Revolution. He revolutionized the way that scientists have researched ever since. The method has been used to study the world around us by scientists for years to come, and much of his work in many fields and his scientific method fuelled scientists for years to come.
“Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
And to bring us to modern times, we can also relate to the contemporary artist of today – British Turner Prize-winning artist Keith Tyson, whose art is driven by science and discovery.
“Artists, unlike scientists, are not attempting to model the world. They are trying to engage the viewer with the wonder of it. If you attempt to marry and equate art with science, then you fail. Suppose you allow what is not similar about art and science and their different methods and processes to co-exist and thrive. In that case, a real art/science collaboration and aesthetic will emerge. But at the end of the day, both art and science are united by one logic and one impulse – both are attempts to understand what it is to be human and the world around us.”
– Artist: Keith Tyson
Welcome, Krishna! Thank you for joining us in our VIP Creative Lounge for our exclusive interview.
Q1 – Sunil – Krishna, I am sure everyone here is intrigued to know how you chose your path to a career in Science as well as to use your talents in Art… Please do enlighten us a little about your background?
Krishna. Sunilji, I am from a country that has been described as the cradle of civilization – India. The country promotes art, respects science and enhances one’s literary capabilities.
I did my M.Sc. in Life Sciences and PhD in Microbiology. My area of research is toxins produced by microorganisms in food and how to control them and protect food from these microbes and toxins. I published several research papers in science and a white appearance on science-based art. I am a self-taught artist who specializes in Art from Science. I am also a writer, a poet, a designer, a social activist, a network creator and an international science-art consultant and reviewer. I explore the relationship between Art, Literature and Science on my network, Art Lab. I have written over 500 hundred articles on various subjects and, at present, written books on science-art literature interactions and how to communicate science through art and literature.
Sunil – Krishna, we can see how Science had a more significant influence on your career and how the flexibility of switching to arts allowed you to practice both careers in parallel. We over here in the West should use these examples and perhaps look to slowly bring about changes to our education system where our future generation could be encouraged to develop both the logical and the creative mind. During our time, we had a rigid and more structured system where we had to make a career choice to either go in the field of the Sciences or Art. Perhaps these changes are already happening in countries that are looking for more advancement in their education system to adopt a friendly and more flexible approach to Science and Art.
Were there other influences in your life that helped you to progress into the Science field from anyone in the family?
Krishna – Sunilji, Most of my family members are in the commerce field, and I am the only person that entered the science arena. My parents encouraged me a lot and gave me complete freedom to do whatever I wanted to do. Science had me in its grip from the beginning, although I am equally interested in art and literature. All three fields have made me the person I am now – a whole human being – a polymath! Polymaths have always fascinated me. To push the limits of the boundaries of the mind to reach the maximum levels of work is a challenge, and I accepted it with pleasure.
Sunil – Krishna, what a fascinating development to your life story, both playing a significant part in your Life and making you what you are today. Thank you for sharing with us.
Q2. Sunil – I would like to ask my next questions concentrating on your artistic development. What’s the first thing you can remember completing as artwork?
Krishna – Water colour landscapes painted during my childhood. I did quite a few of them! My real ‘science-based art’ was born when I created my first “Sacred Life” work. I used religious teachings and art for the cause of conservation. Completed in 2006, that, I feel, is my first real artwork.
Sunil – How very interesting that landscape painting became a natural choice for you to develop your artistic talent. We relate to our surroundings as an attachment for our growth and learning process; therefore appropriate for you to lean towards your environment for inspiration.
Q3. Sunil – This, therefore, leads me to ask my next question, when did you first realize you were an artist?
Krishna – Sunilji, when I was in school, my teachers appreciated my drawings. I was given full marks all throughout my academic career for all my science- illustrations. And I realized I could write poems too when my English teacher gave me nine marks out of ten for my rhythmic language and wrote ‘excellent’ on my English literature exam answer sheets as the tenth one ( the rules didn’t allow her to give me ten out of ten!)
Sunil – How encouraging and very fortunate that you developed your trust in your instincts, the significant factors that help you nurture you’re truly creative talents.
Q4. Sunil – Krishna, How would you describe your art to someone who has never seen your work?
Krishna. – A beautiful interaction between art and science. Proof of aesthetics of science! An awesome communication of complexity through simplicity. (This is how other people described my work!)
Sunil – Krishna, I would agree with that and add that your paintings represent pieces of innocence and creativity working from basic forms to more profound spiritual enlightenment covering the path of the journey on different levels.
Q5. Sunil – Krishna, you recently became a member of GICAS as you are aware of what we have achieved in a short period as a Global Organisation. How could we assist you or help to get your message out there?
Krishna – Sunilji, It is nice to know about the work GICAS is doing in promoting art at the global level. Science and art can work with each other for the benefit of the whole of mankind. Please, take this Renaissance message to people around the world. Promote science-based art by mentioning it wherever and whenever possible. Make people accept it as a form of art. Organizers of Art and science shows, fairs, and Biennials should encourage sci-artists by making science-based art a part of mainstream art. People complain that sci-art is being neglected completely by the funding agencies. This attitude should change. And a change can be brought only when people accept it as a form of art!
Sunil, and Krishna, I am sure our interview today will go a long way to achieve your wish as our interview today has gone out to all members and guests who all appreciate our strong message. We could see openings for greater possibilities for members in management and decision-making roles to do what is right for the betterment of Mankind. From our successful example, we can begin to mirror global prospects.
Q6. Sunil – Would you like to share examples of some of your major projects?
Krishna – Sunilji, I am trying to communicate complex science through art and literature. At the moment, I am more into research and publishing papers involving science-art and scientists’ dealings with art apart from creating science-based art and literature (in the form of stories, poems and articles) and running a network based on the theme which doubles as a journal on the subject. If time permits, I will try to do a few projects based on the theme in the future.
Sunil – Krishna, I can see you are doing wonderful work and wish you continued success all around as I believe the role you play will become an essential pivoting factor for the future progress and destiny for humanity to look toward finding solutions to address the problems of how to preserve our only planet for our future generation.
Q7. Sunil – Describe yourself in 3 words; one has to be a colour?
Krishna.- A complete person (of science, art and literature!)
Universal, Humane, Black (Krishna means black in Sanskrit). The colour is very mysterious and has great significance. The colour absorbs all the other colours yet is very stable. It overwhelms all other colours! Black would harmonize better with the other colours. When you put black on top of another colour, the colour below disappears! You can correct the mistakes in a painting by using black. Black has this remarkable presence! When black colour is placed alongside a lighter colour, the contrast between the colours attracts the eye more. When black is added, you get depth to any painting or artwork!
When surrounded by black colour, things pop out in a work of art. Its presence brings out the best in other colours! Black is one of the most important colours in the art world! (like all the colours, but the significance of black is really striking!)
Renoir said black is the “queen of all colours” because it has the power to draw the most attention to itself in a painting. It can create bold contrast and accents in the hands of a master painter. Black is a Master’s colour, a colour that Rembrandt, Manet, Frans Hals, Renoir and a few others could use in an extraordinary manner.
Sunil – Krishna, thank you for your self-analysis. I would further reinforce your comments that your goals for Sciences and Arts will become the future direction for the more significant benefit of the whole Universe.
Q8. Sunil – Tell us your perfect scenario for working in art?
Krishna – Science Lab! When a person of science enters the field of art, natural science becomes her ‘muse’!
Sunil – Krishna Yes, I could visualize the prospects for the environment around the Science Labs with the backdrop to showcase art for both to co-exist and bring harmony to the surrounding spaces.
Q9. Sunil – Do you have any advice for artists just starting out?
Krishna -. Just be who you are!
Sunil, this is relatively short and to the point. Thank you for your advice..,
Q10. Sunil – It has been an exciting journey to follow your career in Science and Art from the early beginning, and now with this exciting interview, we have to come to an end. therefore my final question is, what are you working on just now? Or give us your future plans that you are working on? And finally, if I could request you recite one of your poems to complete our interview.
Krishna- Sunilji, Writing books, Lots of them. On science, science art, poetry and general topics, and stories. I am a fashion and jewellery designer too. I have designed more than 200 Indian dresses till now! Right now, I am working on some more designs.
Creating more artworks to communicate science.
And combining Science, Art and Literature …
Follow Science only in the way a Scientist’s mind would allow
Create art with an artist’s heart
Balance art and science to touch everybody’s senses
Culturize science like the specialists advise
With
Music of Science that can create magic
A touch of art only electro-magnetism can match
Art and science can be never part
Whose appeal has a universal base
Then
The wondering world can’t stop pondering
Science in art or is this art in science
Stamp of a polymath or a hard work’s pomp?
Making people say, oh, what a feeling!
– Dr Krishna Kumari Challa
Sunil – Thank you, Krishna. It now leaves me to do the final honours to invite GICAS members and guests to participate by asking questions. Therefore, to conclude our interview, I could request two questions you would like to ask Krishna.
Sunil Vilas England UK.
Founder
Good afternoon to all our members around the globe. I hope you all have plans to take a little of your time to just relax and enjoy the weekend break!!!! Hello to Elizabeth and Pushkin hope all is well with you both. Thank you for your acknowledgement of enjoying our interview with Dr Krishna Kumari Challa… It was a lovely opportunity to catch up. Perhaps you would like to ask a question or two?… I am sure Krishna would be happy to answer.
Dr Krishna Kumari Challa – India.
Scientist, artist, writer, poet, designer, Runs a network- http://www.kkartlab.in, http://www.kkartfromscience.com
Thank you, Sunilji. love to hear from the members here.
Pushkin E H – India
artist, writer, and freelance
Dear Dr Krishna, I have three questions.
‘Probably science has trained and domesticated me- both in physical and artistic life. I usually think art and science are strongly associated, and such a relationship will help man observe things in the universe and on earth sensibly and compassionately. Are my observations meaningful?’
‘Why did nature avidly modify humans into more intelligent beings than other species? And why do humans fervently acquire automobiles rather than artworks and arms rather than flowers?’ Kind regards!
Sunil Vilas – England UK.
Founder / Managing Director / Art Dealer, ICAS – Vilas Fine Art
Welcome, Pushkin, to our VIP creative lounge. Thank you for asking three very interesting questions..,
Dr Krishna Kumari Challa – India.
Scientist, artist, writer, poet, designer, Runs a network- http://www.kkartlab.in, http://www.kkartfromscience.com
Thanks for the comments, Mr Pushkin. Yes, your outlook will definitely be different when you have both art and science in a single mind. I find this really interesting. Artists depend primarily on “their thoughts, ideas, beliefs and personal views” for their work. In contrast, scientists base their work on natural laws and facts and how to fit their informed ideas into these laws to creatively invent or discover something. The imagination of a scientist is based on reality. A scientist has to get his imagination right to succeed where, whereas the artist need not do it right to move forward. In fact, the inadequacies of artists’ imagination are what move the art world forward! I will give an example here. When artists, writers and poets look at the moon, they see it as a silver ball in the sky and describe it or paint it in this manner. I even read some stories where the crescent moon was described as a jewel in the hair of a God! This thinking reflects in their creativity ( metaphor and fiction). When they think about the moon, scientists think about a rocky, dusty satellite that moves in space around the earth trapped in its gravity field. They use their creativity to take the help of the gravity of the moon to accelerate spaceships or change their course to send them to other planets to save fuel and time – the mechanism is called “gravity assist ” ( fact). In that way, artistic creativity differs from scientific creativity. Artistic creativity makes me relax and breathe easily while my mind gets overburdened with scientific creativity. Changing the gear will really be helpful. Both science and art are compassionate when taken from the right perspective. But somehow, as scientists, we were told and trained to put emotions at bay as soon as we enter our workplaces as they interfere with critical thinking. It is difficult for scientists to come out of this mould. In art, there are no such restrictions, and therefore artists seem more humane and emotional. However, anyone who knows how the nervous system works during pain processing can do no physical harm to any living being. And anyone who knows how the brain works emotionally will never try to harass another living being. Anyone who has seen how the scientific rules are followed universally in a given set of conditions and understood its beauty can never think in local terms. It can never come under the influence of artificially created races, castes, groups, communities or citizenships. He sees all the living beings as his own images – following universal rules of life and as citizens of this universe. I learned all about human existence, morality, humane nature, universal brotherhood, secularism, tolerance, inner strength and everything a human being should be from science! It gave me answers to several of my questions – including the most testing ones – how to be calm in the most trying circumstances and how to have peace of mind when everything around you is falling apart. In that way, both art and science are humane and meaningful.
Dr Krishna Kumari Challa – India.
Scientist, artist, writer, poet, designer, Runs a network- http://www.kkartlab.in, http://www.kkartfromscience.com
I have already answered your second Q in one of my artworks, “Choice is yours”. Some people complain that science also brings with it a few bad things, like commercial GM crops, nuclear bombs etc., along with the good it does for mankind. But according to the scientific community – science is like a knife. A knife can be used to cut throats and spill blood. It can also be used for good purposes like cutting fruits and vegetables. It depends on the person who uses it. Likewise, science can also be used for the benefit of living beings and for their destruction. Which way it goes is in the hands of the person who uses it. The choice is definitely yours. Science doesn’t ask people to use guns. The ultimate truth is that no nation has gone to war with another about whose laboratories or technologies are better. Human history is instead replete with wars over religion or the egos of kings. It is true that science has provided the tools for war and given a false or short-term sense of confidence to nations, but it has never, ever suggested war. So associating war with science is like associating horses with war – science has provided the wherewithal for more violent wars but never demanded a war or subjugation of other people. That has been done by kings And leaders claiming to be agents of god, generally driven by greed or a sense of personal glory. Again if you ask why this ego and personal glory is present – I would say when the chemicals ( of aggression and reward like testosterone and dopamine ) that control the emotions of human beings become uncontrollable, their minds go haywire. There is a difference between animals and human beings. I created an artwork based on the theme too titled “MIND OVER MATTER” It says: A mentally weak person says: “You can’t escape your Biology” or “It is impossible to overcome your Biology”. Right? Wrong!
Yes, your genes control the way you behave & live – through biochemical reactions. Your nerves & pleasure points in the body & brain affect your behaviour too.
Hormones try to get involved in everything you do. With all these strings attached to your life & affecting every move you make, how can you escape your Biology?
But you can! The same life came with a mind & a thought process too. With a bit of thought, you can determine what is wrong & what is right, what is bad & what is good, what is pain & what is pleasure in the end. By tightly controlling this process & in turn, the behaviour, one can overcome one’s Biology. It is not easy & requires tremendous training of the mind. But if a person can do it, he can become a superhuman.
Dr Krishna Kumari Challa
Scientist, artist, writer, poet, designer, Runs a network- http://www.kkartlab.in, http://www.kkartfromscience.com
And “Why has nature avidly modified humans into more intelligent beings compared to other species?” I think nature doesn’t show any discrimination between living beings. One chemical reaction leads to another, evolving a more complex system. A single dust grain becomes the complex structure of a snowflake. Watch how a snowflake ‘evolves’ here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYrF3sFBY20 Likewise, a single-cell organism evolved into several other life forms. This evolution process leads to the most complex human beings. Such a complex system needs a sophisticated brain to survive. So the brain, too, evolved to deal with the complexity of the human survival process, and ‘intelligence’ is the result of such evolution. Unless we can analyse our surroundings properly and act according to the demands of our surroundings, we cannot survive. This thought process of surviving successfully in our world leads to intelligence. As we think more and more and put our capabilities to more tests, our intelligence evolves more and more by taking new routes. And the ‘intelligence’ of any living depends on their needs to survive in its environment.
Dr Krishna Kumari Challa – India
Scientist, artist, writer, poet, designer, Runs a network- http://www.kkartlab.in, http://www.kkartfromscience.com
Scientists use laser-powered mind control to make flies flirt. Neurons treated with a heat-activated protein were activated with infrared lasers to trigger courtship behaviour.
A laser beam makes flies flirt.
The mind-altering device activates heat-sensitive neural pathways involved in courtship.
http://www.nature.com/news/laser-beam-makes-flies-flirt-1.14794
Sunil Vilas
Founder / Managing Director / Art Dealer, ICAS – Vilas Fine Art
Good morning Krishna, thank you for your more detailed responses to Pushkin’s questions .., very enlightening to understand from both perspectives the sciences as well as the art… Perhaps we could continue with more questions from our GICAS family and guests as we are LIVE on GOOGLE, Facebook, our website and here in LinkedIn..,
Pushkin E H – India
artist, writer, and freelance
Dear Krishna, thank you so much for your meaningful and beautiful explanations of my questions. As a multi-talented person, your evaluation of life, art and science is fabulously proficient and novel. But about ‘emotion’, artists apply limitations because emotion is behaviour and its direct exposition possibly contributes different results on art (and precarious results in real life too). For example, Paul Rubens’s ‘The rape of the daughters of Leucippus’ and Picasso’s Guernica. Both paintings emanate extreme anguish and anxiety, but Guernica is so imperturbable than ‘The rape of the daughters of Leucippus’.
My theory on life and human being: ‘The universe deliberately created life to feel its own existence, and nature purposely adopted and brilliantly designed human beings as an enormous ‘consumer’ to stabilize its bio symmetry. Nature constructed and adjusted the human brain and body inaudibly and efficiently for creating and constructing technologies powered by fossil fuels- its basic elements or possessions littered beneath for millions of years in unconventional forms. Nature encourages a human more to buy an automobile than a painting because an automobile consumes more fossil fuels than art. In contemporary life, you cannot keep aside a single object untouched by fossil fuels.’ (You can consider this as fictitious but think about it. Kind regards!)
Dr Krishna Kumari Challa
Scientist, artist, writer, poet, designer, Runs a network- http://www.kkartlab.in, http://www.kkartfromscience.com
Thanks, Sunilji and Mr Pushkin. Science is still trying to understand why life came into existence and evolved in the way it is. “Consume” is a relative word. According to the laws of conservation of energy: Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. All forms of energy exhibit mass & all mass is a form of energy. Energy remains constant. Energy can be converted from one form to another i.e., if it disappears in one form, it reappears in another form. An atom that is a part of you now can become a part of a plant or a tree in your garden or your pet dog or a hill- while you are living or after your death. If it disappears from here, it reappears somewhere else. Everything came from cosmic energy & mass & return to it in the end. This universe runs on mass & energy cycles- where life &death are relative terms & words like I & mine become meaningless. Here nothing-not even your body- is yours! ( my artwork “Universal Philosophy”) So when you consume a plant, the atoms and molecules or energy become yours. And when a tiger consumes you again, you become a part of the tiger. When the tiger dies, all its energy and mass again return to nature and are consumed by other organisms of nature. So mass and energy are constant and don’t go anywhere – they just undergo various cycles. But we are consuming or taking more than we should from nature, and right now, it is going out of balance. That is what scientists are worried about and warned about. Fossil fuels ( again came from plants and other living organisms that existed on our planet millions of years ago), and we are consuming them faster than nature can make them! And utilizing them is polluting the planet, and One day, they will just disappear from the planet. Then? What would you do? Again science has to provide answers! It already is doing just that!
Sunil Vilas
Founder / Managing Director / Art Dealer, ICAS – Vilas Fine Art
Good morning Krishna. Thank you for your reply to Pushkin’s theoretical question, ..,
Pushkin, let’s pick up on an interesting point you raise to explore possibilities as a group to look at the works more closely by the two masters Paul Rubens and Pablo Picasso, drawing parallels of understanding the psychic nature of their emotions, could have played to affect the final results, as both the painters completed powerful works.
Paul Rubens’s work, ‘The rape of the daughters of Leucippus’- 1618, a classical five-figure painting of an ancient mythical story in the Baroque Era and Pablo Picasso’s Guernica -1937, A black & white symbolic painting depicting war & art, recording the truth behind the bombing of Guernica, and how technology plays a destructive role to mankind as a whole.
Pushkin I would like to introduce a third painting by Paul Rubens, “The Consequence of War 1638-1639, completed three hundred years earlier, as a direct reference and comparison between the two artists to continue our discussion on science and art.
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Dr Krishna Kumari Challa
Scientist, artist, writer, poet, designer, Runs a network- http://www.kkartlab.in, http://www.kkartfromscience.com
Like I have said before on this very thread, according to scientists, science and technology have been misrepresented as things that play a destructive role to mankind as a whole. Quote-” Choice is yours” my work sums this up. Some people complain that science also brings with it a few bad things, like commercial GM crops, nuclear bombs etc., along with the good it does for mankind. But according to the scientific community – science is like a knife. A knife can be used to cut throats and spill blood. It can also be used for good purposes like cutting fruits and vegetables. It depends on the person who uses it. Likewise, science can also be used for the benefit of living beings and for their destruction. Which way it goes is in the hands of the person who uses it. The choice is definitely yours.- Unquote. Scientists toil day and night to bring benefits to mankind. It is the people who cannot understand what it is all about and, fueled by greed, use technology for destruction. Science and technology are not at fault. The idea of using them for destruction is!
Sunil Vilas
Founder / Managing Director / Art Dealer, ICAS – Vilas Fine Art
Good morning to all our members around the Globe. I hope all is well with you all and that you are enjoying a weekend break!!!
Thank you, Krishna, for your reconfirmation. I enjoyed Pushkin’s analogy and therefore wanted to introduce another perspective for the benefit of our art audiences seeking further clarification as I believe every day we awake to explore possibilities of improving our creative minds and the environment that we live in… The question is how to maintain a happy balance?
If we could continue with our conversation on Science and Art, other members around the globe, including guests, would ask a question to Krishna.
Pushkin E H – India
Artist, Writer at Freelance
‘Manic Depression and Creativity’ –an interestingly discussed topic by prominent scientists recently, and some of the famous artists introduced during the discussion were Van Gogh, Rothko etc.
It will be interesting if ‘Emotion in Artwork’ will be a subject. To me, an artist can’t materialise a creative desire if an emotional influence cannot occur. The emotional influence exists as different perspectives as peculiar, composed and mixed. For example, ‘Tree of fluids (Body of a lady)’ (Jean Dubuffet) for peculiar, ‘Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue’ (Piet Mondrian) for composing, and ‘Autumn Rhythm’ (Jackson Pollock) for mixed (I strongly believe Pollock’s ‘emotion’ has been intertwined with his own ‘physical emotiveness’ too.) ‘Emotions in art’ is a significant subject. We can start a new Discussion on the ICAS’s profile later.
Dr Krishna Kumari Challa
Scientist, artist, writer, poet, designer, Runs a network- http://www.kkartlab.in, http://www.kkartfromscience.com
There are links between mental abilities and mental conditions. I have posted some of these papers on my network (group research). You can also find some here:
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3026387/asides/science-you-think-crazy-artists-make-better art
http://english.cntv.cn/program/cultureexpress/20131018/101576.shtml
https://www2.bc.edu/sara-cordes/pdfs/YoungWinnerCordes_PACA2012.pdf
Dr Krishna Kumari Challa
Scientist, artist, writer, poet, designer, Runs a network- http://www.kkartlab.in, http://www.kkartfromscience.com
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1113089340/music-not-for-everyone-brain-reward-system-030614/#jMxktHuwd7D0vPL
Sunil Vilas
Founder / Managing Director / Art Dealer, ICAS – Vilas Fine Art
Good morning to you all… I hope you all had a pleasant weekend break!!
Pushkin, thank you for your suggestions.., Yes!!! it would be a lovely idea to cover a whole topic on emotion in Art in our creative lounge and perhaps have recommendations for the monthly theme committee to include the ideas for May, June and or July for artists to consider submitting work relevant to the topic of discussion.
Thank you once again, Krishna, for your reply to Pushkin’s last comment, giving references and case studies that make excellent reading..,
Pushkin E H
Artist, Writer at Freelance
A significant discussion. When I suggested participating, a few of my artist friends said science and art subsist on two different shores with dissimilar identities. Maybe such perception of science and art is personal but untimely because, except for some few communities who live, or have lived, either by choice or by circumstance, without significant contact with globalised cavitation located in densely forested areas in South America, New Guinea and India, the all other existing civilization now living under a single roof of ‘science’, assisted by a safety pin to email and antibiotic to acrylic paints and candies to ballistic missiles! A factual fact!
Dr Krishna Kumari Challa
Scientist, artist, writer, poet, designer, Runs a network- http://www.kkartlab.in, http://www.kkartfromscience.com
How true! One artist once said, ‘we don’t need science in the art world’, which made me smile. Because I told him, ‘the moment you try to mix chemicals on a palette, you are dealing with chemistry. When you start appreciating a work of art, you deal with neuro-aesthetics. Now say you don’t need science in art!’ He has been silent since then. You cannot escape science in any field now! This is a fact.
Pushkin E H
Artist, Writer at Freelance
As accentuated science’s prominence and contributions, artists’ stands and concerns too should be addressed. Carl Sagan once said that science is a two-edged sword, and both represent innovations and destruction. For example, Between 50 to 70 million people were killed in wars during the 19th century because of the lack of technologies and fuels 240 million people were killed in the 20th century by its wars because of widespread discovery and extraction of fossil fuels. Most of the technologies that emerged during the 20th century for wars and warfare depended on fossil fuels, which helped to make artilleries more sophisticated and accurate, more dependable and available; such artilleries butchered millions of wonderful humans for nothing! Artists constantly stood against such criminal intimidations, and there are visible reactions such as ‘The Third of May 1808’ by Francisco Goya and the ‘Guernica’ by Picasso Etc. Artists, too, have reasons for science, even if that supports their existence and makes the profession more tranquil and easy.
Dr Krishna Kumari Challa
Scientist, artist, writer, poet, designer, Runs a network- http://www.kkartlab.in, http://www.kkartfromscience.com
You need not be an artist or a scientist to be a good person to realize that killing another human being is inhuman and bad. Recently I watched a discussion on BBC news channel where artists and scientists discussed the very things you have mentioned, Mr Pushkin. Scientists are as much worried about these things as artists. Some artists said in the discussion scientific revolution brought all bad things to the world. But according to scientists, artists fail to realize that even before ‘science’ came into existence, some human beings killed others using stones! Science has nothing to do with it. Hitler was an artist! Genocide happened because of him. Did you ever hear any scientist becoming a Hitler and killing people on a large scale using gas chambers? The kings, leaders and politicians used weapons of mass destruction. Not scientists. No scientist, in the history of the whole of mankind, ever used a weapon of mass destruction ‘on his own’. In the previous centuries, the population of the Earth was minimum. Now, as population growth occurred to a tremendous scale, any weapon used will kill more people per square kilometre than in the earlier centuries. You cannot compare one with the other as equations are different now.
Graeme Smith
G’Day Krishna, Creativity is the same, whether expressed as an aspect of science or as an aspect of art. Creativity is the way people solve problems. The problems typically solved (or attempted to) in science differ from those in art. The solutions are expressed as proof in science, whereas in art, they are a test of one alternative.
Sunil Vilas
Founder / Managing Director / Art Dealer, ICAS – Vilas Fine Art
Good morning to all our GICAS members around the globe..,
Hello to Krishna & Pushkin. Thank you for providing an excellent perspective to our interview and debut on science and Art …; welcome to Graeme Smith, kind of you to join us and thank you for your comments; if I could ask Krishna to respond…,
Hello to two GICAS members also joining us today, Pauline & Sonia..,
We hope as a GICAS global organisation, we each continue to seek answers to our own individual questions. Hopefully, some of them we covered during our responses. It’s been a pleasure and a privilege to have Dr Krishna Kumari Challa amongst our list of GICAS members; multi-talented, she also brings with her years of experiences, a symbol of a person who has united and bridged the gap between science and art working in harmony. I look forward to working together in joint collaboration in areas in which we could assist..,
Thank you for your lovely time in our VIP lounge. I would like to take this opportunity to officially welcome you as one of the Globalization ICAS members.
Dr Krishna Kumari Challa
Scientist, artist, writer, poet, designer, Runs a network- http://www.kkartlab.in, http://www.kkartfromscience.com
Thank you so much! I respect all the fields I work in equally, although I think science is the toughest subject of all and needs more effort to come up with solutions. Some perspectives provided by artists are really excellent and enhance my capacity to understand the world in a better way. Each artist thinks and sees the world around him in a different way. That variety makes the art world very rich. Sometimes I wonder, without all the colours, varieties, and different perspectives, how would the world be? Dull and boring, I suppose!
To follow our EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS with SUNIL VILAS:
What do Red, Stone, and Horse have in common with Japanese Master ceramic artist Shiho Kanzaki?
ART AND SCIENCE ARE UNITED BY ONE IMPULSE AND ONE LOGIC!! We put to the test and question the theory of creative dualism?
The Lost Civilization and its Hidden Treasures of Peruvian Pottery An important lesson and role we can all play to preserve all traditional Art with connection to the ancient Civilizations that begins with an awareness program.
What do Sunshine, River, and Turquoise have in common with Canadian abstract artist Laara Williamsen?
We explore today’s modern craftsmen/artists by showcasing some exquisite pieces from Studio Glass Art Collection.
Mona Youssef, realism painter’s exclusive interview in our VIP Creative Lounge.
Meet Jake Fernandez, today’s most celebrated Contemporary artist; follow his life story to his successful career in ART!!
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Thank you so much, Sunilji, for encouraging science-art-literature interactions. Looking forward to answering the questions asked by the members of Globalization ICAS