{"id":3621,"date":"2009-12-31T12:55:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T20:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=3621"},"modified":"2009-12-31T12:55:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T20:55:53","slug":"art-meet-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/31\/art-meet-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Art, Meet Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for the dismal lack of blogging &#8212; apparently even scientists travel around the holidays, who knew?  I&#8217;m in South Carolina at the moment, so instead of the well-constructed argument (complete with witty parenthetical asides) on a pressing issue of the moment that I&#8217;d love to provide, please accept this simple link to some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amusingplanet.com\/2009\/12\/sketches-and-paintings-by-richard.html\">sketches by Richard Feynman<\/a>.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/links_for_2009-12-31.php\">Via Chad Orzel<\/a>, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Teach-Physics-Your-Dog\/dp\/1416572287\/\"><em>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/em><\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Feynman&#8217;s fondness for drawing is well-known, especially when the subject was naked ladies.  The sketches aren&#8217;t going to win any art competitions, but they&#8217;re certainly better that I could do.  And here&#8217;s one I bet very few professional artists could pull off:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amusingplanet.com\/2009\/12\/sketches-and-paintings-by-richard.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2009\/12\/feynmanart302.jpg\" alt=\"feynmanart302\" width=\"600\" height=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3622\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I find that the subtle use of integration by parts really speaks of man&#8217;s inhumanity to man, don&#8217;t you agree?<\/p>\n<p>But my favorite recent example of science-inflected art has to be this newly discovered late-period Jackson Pollock:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2009\/12\/4197084632_4e80dcb84b_o.png\" alt=\"4197084632_4e80dcb84b_o\" width=\"600\" height=\"599\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3623\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oops, sorry; that&#8217;s not an abstract expressionist masterpiece at all.  It&#8217;s a plot of theoretical predictions and experimental constraints for dark matter, as <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/12\/17\/dark-matter-detected-or-not-live-blogging-the-seminar\/#comment-110882\">linked by Brian Mingus in comments<\/a>.  Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/dmtools.brown.edu\/\">dmtools<\/a> if you&#8217;d like to make your own plot.   Science and art are for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for the dismal lack of blogging &#8212; apparently even scientists travel around the holidays, who knew? I&#8217;m in South Carolina at the moment, so instead of the well-constructed argument (complete with witty parenthetical asides) on a pressing issue of the moment that I&#8217;d love to provide, please accept this simple link to some sketches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-science-and-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}