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> Can scientists take a 20-40 year old person with an average upbringing and create the next Picasso or Stanley Kubrick by showing and training them on a ton of
by 331c8c71 4y ago
> Can scientists take a 20-40 year old person with an average upbringing and create the next Picasso or Stanley Kubrick by showing and training them on a ton of art?
Don't you think "showing and training" sounds very passive? No one can train a dispassionate person to become a proficient artist let alone genius.
And scientists are unlikely to be particularly good at teaching art.
- comfypotato 4y agoMy education was engineering, but I took plenty of science classes as accessories to some neuroscience research I did. Also, the art school was next to the engineering department, and I took advantage of this by taking art classes all along as an outlet for stress. I had multiple memorable conversations (anecdotal evidence, and potentially b.s. at that) with very successful folks in both pure art and pure science that suggested they are actually very similar at a fundamental level. I say pure in that these folks had spent lifetimes producing public art projects or research from grants. They only taught as a byproduct of their passions. The idea-generation phase of both industries essentially runs along the same tracts/fascicles/etc. in the brain. I even had a more eccentric professor suggest that the cutting edge of the art world actually mirrors that of science in that the same discoveries are conceptualized in tandem.