After reading the articles and watching the lectures I began to think about all the times people have talked about the separation of art and science. The first thing that came to mind was people saying that if you are good at one then you can not be good at the other. This also made me think of how teachers would tell you that you are either right or left brained, meaning that you are either creative and good at art or you are more scientific minded and good at math. I think that there is no real separation between the two because you need both art and science to do things.
C.P. Snow said that the curriculum offered at schools is a big reason for the belief that science and art are separated. As I began to think about being taught science and art from elementary school to high school I began to agree more with Snow. Science was always a mandatory class while art was always an elective that people would take just to have an easy class. I took two art classes in high school and five science classes. I took the art classes just so that I could get an easy A and so that I could have a class with friends, while I took the sciences classes because I had to and to help get into college.
I have always thought of science and art as two completely separate things, but throughout the years I have learned that you need both to do things and that they are actually very closely linked. Growing up I believed that with science all you needed to know what the formulas and hard facts and that with art all you needed to know was how to draw, but I have learned that that is actually not true at all. You need to use both science and art to figure things out.
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Snow, C. P. The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. New York: Cambridge UP, 1959. Print.
Papacosta, Pangratios, and Ann Hanson. “Artistic Expressions in Science and Mathematics.” Journal of College Science Teaching, vol. 27, no. 4, 1998, pp. 250–252. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/42989975.
Richmond, Sheldon. “The Interaction of Art and Science.” Leonardo, vol. 17, no. 2, 1984, pp. 81–86. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1574993.
Skylar, I particularly like the part about science classes being mandatory and art classes being optional, and regarded as easy. Throughout my high school experience, we were required only one art class, while we had to take at least 2 years of science. Some of my peers who were more interested in the arts, took a route that focused on those topics. Do you believe this choice would help you close the between the two cultures, or would it further separate them?
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