Over all review of Art & Physics

All though I wasn't too pulled into this book, I did find it informative. Mainly because it gave me insight on how these two polar opposite topics are related. To be honest, I never really thought these two topics could correlate.
The book started off with how our minds start off seeing things in an abstract way so we can understand it all as a whole, which is what physicists do with art. He then goes on with how each topic tries to break down each other. His over all thesis is that artists basically predict the future of science through their artwork. This idea is pretty accurate since artists have a very futuristic and abstract way of conveying their thoughts. Many artists in the past have made something that later comes up in science.
This book was really helpful to me so I could see the relationship between the two. I never really thought about how artist's would show futuristic ideas in their work, and it would become true. It's almost like each and every artist's can see the future without knowing it. It would be amazing if I (being a visual artist) could create something that would one day be a breakthrough in science.

Art and Physics

This book is comparing two polar opposite fields: art and physics. You would never think that these two areas would have something in common. In the first chapter, Shlain explains how we use physics in art and vice-versa. He says how physicists try to break down nature and artists try to break it down into different parts so it can be seen perfectly as a whole. Also, that in the beginning of our lives we see and learn things in an abstract way, we try to understand reality just like a physicist does with nature.
In the second chapter he begins talking about how the Greeks way of beginning our letter system with vowels was that civilization's first abstract art since it was such an odd and new thing. Since the alphabet was repeatedly used by large numbers of Greeks for long periods of time, it reinforced the aspects of comprehension: abstraction, continuity, and linearity. Later it tells how those three aspects are in art just as much as they are in physics. Finally, in the third chapter it talks about religion, specifically Christianity and how the church put down physics and art so that people will really only believe what the bible says.