Sintelly - Artistic vs Scientific Mind

Throughout history, great scientists and artists shared one common trait, and this is none other than curiosity. Artists and scientists view the world with this thirst for knowledge and they work hard to comprehend how it works. Artists express their views of the world in physical art pieces while scientists meticulously test their theories.

To put it simply, both scientists and artists tread on the same path of initial free thought until they reach the point where they need to act. This is the part where the path divides into two. Those with a scientific mind follow a certain set of rigorous rules and testing to get to their point of understanding.

While most onlookers may see the fields of science and art as two totally different things, the truth is that there is a strong connection that binds them together. Both of them have inquisitive minds.

The key difference between science and art all boils down to the modern attitude of form and rules.

In general, modern science seeks to shore up and reevaluate the years of research that led to the present conception of today’s material world.

Once new knowledge recasts or disrupts the existing framework of knowing, science doesn’t radically shift or overhaul its base rules but adapts them more cautiously instead.

Modern art has almost as many discoveries when it comes to aesthetics and form, but it is more susceptible to radical shifts and usually veers off tradition, which is what happens at least to the most popular forms of art.

It wouldn’t be easy to claim that every artist that operates in the modern era ditches tradition, although high-profile examples tend to do so.

Every time you see news about modern artists, they don’t seem like they want to make incremental advances in the knowledge field – unlike scientists that seem to do so. They may be making a more radical turn in a completely different direction altogether. 

As expected, even if art and science are distinct from each other in terms of knowledge use, these two fields overlap massively. The obsession with knowledge from the two ends typically means that the thought process of the scientific mind and artistic mind is more similar than you might think.